Greece Quotes

215 Greece quotes by 149 unique authors

What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and… — Paulo Coelho
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. — Nikos Kazantzakis
The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as… — Rick Riordan
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. — Gerald Durrell
I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I… — Charles Baudelaire
Have any of you taken a look out at Greece in the last, say, hour or so? (Hermes) What? Are they reacting to the fact… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
See how exciting Anthropology is? He’s a leading expert in ancient Greece. Now you should all change your majors so that you can ogle men… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
he asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: "when we find out… — William S. Burroughs
Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one… — Dinesh D'Souza
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the… — Homer
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. — Homer
Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she… — Homer
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the… — Homer
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. — Homer
Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the… — Homer
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped… — Homer
Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed… — Homer
Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus — Rick Riordan
She is Melusina, the water goddess, and she is found in hidden springs and waterfalls in any forest in Christendom, even in those as far… — Philippa Gregory
I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the… — Edith Hamilton
She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but… — Ann Brashares
The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The… — Jesse Owens
Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is. — Rick Riordan
. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s… — William Faulkner

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