Greece Quotes · Page 4

I had the privilege of living in Greece in the early 1970s.

— Charles Dallara

My mom was a professional tennis player. She was the one who made tennis in Greece an actual sport.

— Maria Sakkari

The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.

— Antonis Samaras

We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.

— Wolfgang Schauble

“… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.”

— Yannis Ritsos

Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.

— Lord Byron

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

— Homer

I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate…

— Marie-Chantal Claire

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar;…

— John Stuart Mill

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

— Lucas Papademos

I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there…

— John Archibald Wheeler

Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob &…

— William Blake

Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for…

— Mario Monti

Greece is not a country that can be humiliated. It is a matter of finding an intersection between the reasonable elements of…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear.

— Peter Bofinger

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true…

— Noam Chomsky

he asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: "when…

— William S. Burroughs

Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or…

— Noam Chomsky

The interesting thing is that the 82% of the Greeks do not want to abandon the Euro. They really believe that there…

— Dora Bakoyannis

“Because they're in love. They sing songs and make art and they make plans and they think it's going to last, just…

— Konstantine Paradias

Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no…

— Alexander the Great

If we were the problem, it would be very convenient, kick Greece out, everything's fine. But what happened to Spain? What about…

— George Papandreou

Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an…

— Paul Smith

We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In…

— Noam Chomsky

. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste…

— William Faulkner

In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the…

— Polybius

“Je tak jasne, ze v dlhodobom horizonte je nutna restrukturalizacia celkoveho verejneho dlhu a jeho ciastocne odpisanie zhruba na urovni 65% z…

— Radovan Kavický

It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Do you see those dull stars?" She outlined the formation with her finger. "A pentagram," whispered Scott. "Yes, but not just any…

— Katie Mattie

“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

Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis…

— Madeline Miller

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

— William Cowper

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

— Nia Vardalos

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

— David Bonderman

I made three films in Greece, and they're made under very specific, very limited conditions.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece.

— Michael Hudson

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

— George Bernard Shaw

The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.

— Henry Miller

Everyone should be proud of where they come from. It's easy to love Greece, though.

— Stefanos Tsitsipas