Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Athens is an amazing city for creativity. I bought a house there. A little, tiny place. — Cindy Wilson 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
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
After watching the Athens Paralympics in 2004, I looked at the swimmers and thought, that's cool. I want to do that. — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
As a 12-year-old when I won my first gold in Athens, I wanted people to know what the Paralympic games were. — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal… — Carly Patterson Copy Share Image
It has been a fantastic journey. I have gone to five Games, broke the Olympics record in 2004 in Athens and won… — Abhinav Bindra Copy Share Image
Straight is the way to Acheron, Whether the spirit's race is run From Athens or from Meroe: Weep not, far from home… — John Addington Symonds Copy Share Image
I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had… — Paula Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I know from my conversations with people in the administration that every world leader that Obama met in Berlin, in Peru, in… — David Remnick 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
Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the… — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been… — John Ralston Saul 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
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
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
“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
“Across the distance, the Acropolis museum cradled within its protective walls its legendary treasures, lulling them to a peaceful sleep under the… — Effrosyni Moschoudi Copy Share Image
Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman 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
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
“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
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships. — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. — Robert South 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
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
