Greek Myths Quotes

“...he would miss half their lives, locked alone in the dark while the children splashed in the rain, earned the Greek myths,…

— Ramona Ausubel

I'm extremely into Greek Mythology and know almost everything about the classic Greek myths.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for…

— Tom Wolfe

I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

— David S. Goyer

All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate…

— Louis Leterrier

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths,…

— Laeta Kalogridis

“You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible…

— Mike Carey & Peter Gross

“I should have learned my lesson from Greek myths, really. It so doesn't pay to fall in love with a god. It’s…

— Marian Tee

“Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood,…

— Michael Montoure

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me…

— George Saunders

We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only…

— Rick Riordan

Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine.…

— Rick Riordan

For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to…

— Robin Sloan

Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom…

— John C. Wright

It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have... To me, they're the same as the…

— Patty Jenkins

THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was…

— Rick Riordan

Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may…

— William Butler Yeats

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. To keep these characters static - like Superman…

— Brian Azzarello

“I read Greek myths. I read about far off places, Venice and Paris. I read about men who searched for things they…

— Alice Hoffman

“Silverstein, one of those leading the charge toward more far-ranging flights than Mercury, had been looking for a suitable name for a…

— Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson

“My aunt and my mother read to me when I was three from all the old Grimm fairy tales, Andersen fairy tales,…

— Ray Bradbury

“Her uneasy gaze skittered along the length of his arms, which were exposed by his rolled-up shirtsleeves... and stopped at the astonishing…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Poppy used to share the room with her older sister, and piles of he sister's outgrown clothes still remained spread out in…

— Holly Black

“Kerényi was as aware as anybody today of the territorial limits of Greek myths and of the non-importability of Hermes. He writes:…

— Karl Kerényi

“You think I hate men. I guess I do, although some of my best friends...I don't like this position. I mistrust generalized…

— Marilyn French

Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody…

— Michael Dirda

Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our…

— Mary Beard