In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon. — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting -… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish and I know that's very popular out… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the… — Charles Thomas Newton Copy Share Image
The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Imagine you are a member of a tour visiting Greece. The group goes to the Parthenon. It is a bore. Few people… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads,… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Across the distance, the Acropolis museum cradled within its protective walls its legendary treasures, lulling them to a peaceful sleep under the… — Effrosyni Moschoudi Copy Share Image
“Modern architects and engineers are still trying to understand how the ancient Greeks were able to build the Parthenon in ten years… — Christopher Dunn Copy Share Image
“There they are. The extreme definiteness with which they stand, now a brilliant white, again yellow, and in some lights red, imposes… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The Parthenon was 228 feet long by 101 broad, and 64 feet high; the porticoes at each end had a double row… — Nancy R E Meugens Bell Copy Share Image
“I want to see the Parthenon by moonlight.' I had my way. They floodlight it now, to great advantage I am told,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
