In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools". — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
“After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born… — W.E.B. DuBois Copy Share Image
I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from… — George Michael Copy Share Image
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit... — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The deeper I go into mythology, the more I find. I originally did five 'Percy Jackson' books. I thought that would cover… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities:… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all… — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Literature, the study of literature in English in the 19th century, did not belong to literary studies, which had to do with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
For instance, we have the largest Polish population of any city except for Warsaw, and the largest Lithuanian population outside Lithuania. More… — Kevin Drumm Copy Share Image
Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
