“The Greeks have three words for love, and that night we knew them all.” — Luna McNamara Copy Share Image
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. — George Michael Copy Share Image
Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“It was the Greeks who coined the term “Amazon.” The word literally means “without breast.” — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
I can play lots of nationalities: Greeks, South Americans, Arabs, all sorts. — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down. — Robert Sean Leonard 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
The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism,… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“The nature of civilisation everywhere was such that, even with the Greeks, it diverted people’s minds away from the reality of death.” — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to… — Origen Copy Share Image
The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end… — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“When an Italian marries a Greek, you get the union of two lots of people who believe themselves to be the creators… — Joe Novella Copy Share Image
We believe that the Greeks have been punished through [the Crusades] by the just judgement of God: these Greeks who have striven… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the… — Tom Chatfield 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
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
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
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
“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
“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 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
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks. — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too,… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.” — Simonides Copy Share Image
“All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed. — Marlon James Copy Share Image