Athens Quotes
82 quotes by 67 authors
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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um,…
— Alton Brown
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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
— Alcuin
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
— Edith Hamilton
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I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.
— Marian Dragulescu
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My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
— John Milton
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What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a…
— Gianluca Basile
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What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful and continued to connect with…
— Kerri Walsh
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What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their…
— Alexander Hamilton
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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who…
— Thucydides
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
— Socrates
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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are…
— Plato
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Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall…
— Socrates
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The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens…
— Gavin de Becker
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The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
— Camille Paglia
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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some…
— David Brainerd
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So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and…
— Isocrates
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I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew…
— Cathy Freeman
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