Ancient greece Quote by Esther Lightcap Meek

“Perhaps he will say, ‘That was an excellent idea the ancient Greeks had, of abandoning female infants on a mountainside. Why was that practice…

— Loretta Chase

“The tremendous historical need of our unsatisfied modern culture, the assembling around one of countless other cultures, the consuming desire for knowledge--what does all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part of us,…

— Louis de Bernières

“If you don’t speak Greek, how do you know if it’s all Greek to you?”

— Jarod Kintz

“It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!”

— Hergé

“because the Greeks existed among things and did not position the world in relation to themselves, they could not be subiectum. They did not…

— Barbara Bolt

“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,…

— Ronald Wright

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast…

— James Henry Breasted

“Here indeed was the great defect of the Greek mind: it was not disciplined; it lacked limiting and steadying traditions; it moved freely in…

— Will Durant

“What did I brood on, sitting there in the classic pose with my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands? We…

— John Banville

“In ancient Greece, some people did that for a living. They would just sit on a tree branch or a stone bench and ponder,…

— Patric Juillet

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis