Greeks Quote by Gutzon Borglum

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

— Oliver Stone

The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

— Mark Twain

The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient…

— George Sarton

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Structure builds minds into great Monuments.

— Robert M. Hensel

I'm seeing people float further and further away from the idea and the culture that we tried to create, and it really pisses me…

— Seth Troxler

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our…

— Friedrich Schiller

“They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they…

— Henry James

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are…

— Vicente Fox

If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

— Frances McDormand

“When an Italian marries a Greek, you get the union of two lots of people who believe themselves to be the creators of modern…

— Joe Novella

“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism, humanism, democracy—which…

— Caroline Alexander