Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
“… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.” — Yannis Ritsos 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
. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy. — Bertrand Russell 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
Greece's unprecedented fiscal effort, which was more than planned, has triggered much larger contractions of economic activity and the tax base than… — Charles Dallara 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
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
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
Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most… — Homer Copy Share Image
We now have two options: We can commence operations at the Hotspots in Italy and Greece and continue to do nothing -… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Going to Santa Fe is like going to Greece. It's not that special compared to other areas. The pinon pines are no… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might… — Robert Byron Copy Share Image
All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed… — Oliver Stone 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
I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive… — Homer Copy Share Image
I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
My mother found a way out of a little one-bedroom apartment in Athens, Greece to bring Arianna to Cambridge to study economics… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
[The Dutch] people want [refugees to be safe] but don't come here. And don't forget, people are very angry about that, that… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image