Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where… — Ben Nicholson 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
“They came back To widows, To fatherless children, To screams, to sobbing. The men came back As little clay jars Full of… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
It's the reason why so many people left Britain like I did in the mid 60s because Britain was exactly the same… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the part of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium;… — Strabo Copy Share Image
The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you were the government you would get the people being angry and trying to find hope to believe something new again.… — Eva Kaili Copy Share Image
The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The European Union is a union of the extreme center. It's a banker's union. You see how they operate in country after… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it.… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
Without the Turkey agreement, tens of thousands of refugees would still be stuck in Greece. The Commission presented proposals for securing Europe's… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
“But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well—for your own son’s death. Never again will… — Homer Copy Share Image
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in… — John Major Copy Share Image
And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in… — Fatos Nano Copy Share Image
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States - I… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
We are proceeding on the basis of common values. We have more to gain from partnership, from promoting our partnership in dealing… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
The unemployed in Greece can get a voucher and choose a training program somewhere in Europe to be retrained during this crisis… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
Put on top of that the fact that the whole world is looking at Britain and saying how is this country going… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I have very fond memories of growing up in Greece, of my brothers and I causing chaos and climbing up trees, which… — Tracy Spiridakos Copy Share Image
It was this epic adventure and I had this mad idea that it would be interesting to follow the Greek hero Odysseus… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Syriza is what it is: a radical, left-wing party that feels the pulse of the times, knows what's at stake, and is… — Alexis Tsipras 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
Meeting up with Paris and Paris was such a highlight in Greece. Dancing at the clubs was a blast, .. There are… — Tara Reid Copy Share Image