50,000 Greeks did not cross the sea to watch your brother fight. You know this. — Andromache Copy Share Image
“Even the Greeks—the so called champions of democracy—voted without ever allowing a single woman into the process.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“I guess the Greeks weren't big fans of online shopping, because they had lots of wars with the Amazons.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks. — Beryl Bender Birch Copy Share Image
Nothing has done more to bring people of different races and different backgrounds together than athletics, certainly more than politicians have done.… — Mike Leach Copy Share Image
The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
“The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but… — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions. — John Catsimatidis Copy Share Image
Greeks are notorious for their potions. I wouldn't say I've used Windex, but there are so many tricks that have been handed… — Elena Kampouris Copy Share Image
We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Whereas the Greeks had Zeus and Athena, we had people who still lived in Verdun. They had a lot to bear on… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
“In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; they knew that labor as… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances,… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image
“And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“ The Coming of the Greeks The southern part of the Italian boot is close to Greece, and several Greek cultures influenced… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
“Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply… — Max Müller Copy Share Image
“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized… — John Adams Copy Share Image
