Athens Quotes

82 Athens quotes by 66 unique authors

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my… — Stephanie Beacham
Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction… — Nigel Farage
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. — Stephen Gardiner
If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better… — Alcuin
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who… — Pablo Picasso
Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When they were minted… — Michael Maloney
I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay… — Pierre Trudeau
Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. — Alexander the Great
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth… — Robert A. Dahl
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the… — Benjamin Disraeli
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they… — Nigel Farage
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first… — Allyson Felix
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it… — Paula Radcliffe
I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life. — Paula Radcliffe
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the… — Michael Stipe
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. — Bill Toomey
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin… — Bill Toomey
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all â€“ security, comfort, and freedom. When… — Edward Gibbon
Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life. — Jostein Gaarder

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