Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather… — Alcuin Copy Share Image
Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's… — Maurice Greene Copy Share Image
Four Games is incredible. Especially as an nine-year-old watching Athens 2004. To think as a kid then I would not just go… — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold. — Marian Dragulescu Copy Share Image
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field,… — Paul Alkazraji Copy Share Image
Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the… — Robert South Copy Share Image
The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably… — Paula Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and… — Thucydides 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
There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the heavy, hot fragrance of summer, and of the clean salty smell of the sea, there was the… — Betty Wason Copy Share Image
“I want to see the Parthenon by moonlight.' I had my way. They floodlight it now, to great advantage I am told,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded to have affected… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned… — Pericles Copy Share Image
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew. — Mark Zupan Copy Share Image
