Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks. — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down. — Robert Sean Leonard Copy Share Image
“The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.” — Simonides Copy Share Image
Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too,… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. — George Michael Copy Share Image
We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“When an Italian marries a Greek, you get the union of two lots of people who believe themselves to be the creators… — Joe Novella Copy Share Image
England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
“We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it—that makes… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The Greeks, the Italians, and the Indians, from whom we get our ideas, erect monuments to ideas; we erect ours to men,… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked,… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
“You know, Mac,”Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently… — Sulari Gentill Copy Share Image
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
We believe that the Greeks have been punished through [the Crusades] by the just judgement of God: these Greeks who have striven… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
“Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“I have read in some of the old histories that in early times the Greeks did not know how to write until… — Ibn Al-Nadim Copy Share Image
I am thrilled to return as Honorary Captain of the GREEKs for HBCUs Team. I reflect fondly on my days at Florida… — T'Keyah Crystal Keymah Copy Share Image
“To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
“The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply… — Max Müller Copy Share Image
“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“ The Coming of the Greeks The southern part of the Italian boot is close to Greece, and several Greek cultures influenced… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances,… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image