Greek Quote by Alice Oswald

When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to…

— Franz Wright

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

— Eric Bana

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek…

— Anne Carson

I was brought up on music hall, and at the same time, I was studying Greek at the age of 12.

— Tony Harrison

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure…

— Henry David Thoreau

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

— Steven Pressfield

I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age…

— William Golding

I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War…

— James A. Michener

“Greek culture owed tremendous debt to the Aegean ... This civilization had grown old, and passed away centuries before the period of Greek learning…

— James John Courtenay

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek…

— Winston Churchill

“The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name.”

— Oscar Wilde

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

— Augusten Burroughs