There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo,…

— Virginia Postrel

You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of…

— Melina Mercouri

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full…

— Joy Page

When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

— Anonymous

When I was a kid, I used to play marbles. I know some of you think I've lost mine.

— Jimy Williams

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

— P. G. Wodehouse

“We were fascinated by the little glass spheres, by those dark waves of color, some narrow and drawn out into several swirls, and others…

— José Maria Arguedas

I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!

— Reinhard Bonnke

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

— Jim Carroll

Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.

— Matthew Arnold

“What the Acropolis in Athens looked like, including the Parthenon of the gods, is best told today at the British Museum in London, which…

— Norman F. Cantor

“I mean seeing the Elgin marbles this morning gave me the same feeling and I didn’t know, don’t know whether I’m in Rome or…

— H.D

My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and…

— Mary Beard

If I'm a national treasure, does that mean I'm like the Elgin Marbles and will get repatriated at some point?

— Bill Bailey

“She still had all of her marbles, though every one of them was a bit odd and rolled asymmetrically. She”

— Ellen Klages