Dreams Quote by Madeline Miller

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek…

— Anne Carson

I think Greek is a really tough language to learn.

— Maria Sakkari

I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a…

— Sara Coleridge

I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole…

— Alice Oswald

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

— Gilbert Murray

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

— Anne Rice

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

— Augusten Burroughs

The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in…

— Louis Pasteur

What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and…

— Peter Levi

“I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that…

— Bertrand Russell

My Greekness was bound to come out of one orifice or another because I am Greek.

— Jamie Demetriou

I was brought up on music hall, and at the same time, I was studying Greek at the age of 12.

— Tony Harrison