“Now any King who wants to call himself my equal wherever I went let him go." Sargon the Great / Enheduanna from… — Daniel Peter Buckley Copy Share Image
“Our journey is one of discovery on Sicily. Like the past Greek writers.orators,historians and philosophers we are all searching for answers on… — Daniel Peter Buckley Copy Share Image
“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In ancient Greece, throwing an apple at a woman was considered a MARRIAGE PROPOSAL. This tradition still continues - throw an apple… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
“With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the… — Athenagoras Copy Share Image
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
“CHORUS: You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK?… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers...… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Do you know how marriage was defined in ancient Greece? Noel said in a calmer tone. Its really simple. A virgin goes… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
“In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One can see… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Hettites appeal to us not alone because of the influence they once exercised on the fortunes of the Chosen People, not alone… — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“TEIRESIAS: I tell you, king, this man, this murderer (whom you have long declared you are in search of, indicting him in… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo… — Mario Livio Copy Share Image
“The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“To the altars of the Great Mother, and later still to that of the Horned God, came those women who wanted children.… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory” was… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“...Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic, but let each man bear his shield straight toward… — Tyrtaeus Copy Share Image
In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the… — John Walford Copy Share Image
“And I shared with all Westerners a Greek heritage: If ancient Greece was the cradle of Western civilization, I think it fair… — Esther Lightcap Meek Copy Share Image
When you think of the Olympics, you think of wrestling. It was a marquee event in ancient Greece and in the modern… — Cael Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Western ‘civilisation’ has been based on the ideas of ancient Greece, where the concept of ‘democracy’ (government by the people) assumed that… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa,… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“Your daughter is gay? Where are all these gay people coming from? Gay friends. Gay daughters of friends. Gay sisters-in-law. Gay suspects.… — Dani Alexander Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty is a temptress. We may try our best to avoid her. But what is certain is that at some point of… — Richie Singh Copy Share Image
“But no city-state ever solved the problem of incorporating new territories and new populations into its existing structure, or involving really large… — Joseph Reese Strayer Copy Share Image
“I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all… — Jasmina Tešanović Copy Share Image
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