The student may read Homer or Ãâ schylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Stop it. This is serious! (Selena) Serious? Please. I’m standing out here on my twenty-ninth birthday, barefoot and in jeans my mother… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“In those days you could identify a person's nationality by smell. Lying on her back with eyes closed, Desdemona could detect the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Panorama is the first word for landscape in Greek. It was about [how today] we see everything, we get to see everything,… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
Part of why I love Greek food so much is that it is simple, but it's unpretentious. It's authentic. — Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark Copy Share Image
I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change".… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which… — Solon Copy Share Image
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so… — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people. — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image