Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks. — Beryl Bender Birch 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
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. — Dorothea Brande 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
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving. — M.I.A 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
“Even the Greeks—the so called champions of democracy—voted without ever allowing a single woman into the process.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and… — Eleanora Duse 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
The Greeks, the Italians, and the Indians, from whom we get our ideas, erect monuments to ideas; we erect ours to men,… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash.… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“What could you possibly write at Gates of Hades?” Cadmus asked. “Keep your spirits up.” Lycon sheathed the dagger he’d used to… — Sulari Gentill Copy Share Image
The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero -… — Seth Shostak 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
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
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
50,000 Greeks did not cross the sea to watch your brother fight. You know this. — Andromache Copy Share Image
“The Greeks have nothing on the Mexicans...we write the truth and it only seems like magic to everyone else.” — Bárbara Renaud González Copy Share Image
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something -… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“If the Jews were Hellenized, it must be remembered that the Greeks were Aramaized.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“How persistent it is, this demand that our gods be perfect. The Greeks were much more reasonable about such things.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro. — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Hero,” said Machaon to his sister who was still muttering to her gods. “Please stop. Surely the gods would have heard you… — Sulari Gentill Copy Share Image
The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
