Acropolis Quote by Melina Mercouri

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece…

— Melina Mercouri

“What the Acropolis in Athens looked like, including the Parthenon of the gods, is best told today at the British Museum in London, which…

— Norman F. Cantor

“They had just docked in Greece and the passengers learned they would be quarantined and not be allowed to go ashore... "It was the…

— Mark Twain

“Like most Istanbul Turks I had little interest in Byzantium as a child. I associated the word with spooky, bearded, black-robed Greek Orthodox priests,…

— Orhan Pamuk

“The Ottoman Turks were about to capture Constantinople, unleashing on Italy a migration of fleeing scholars with bundles of manuscripts containing the ancient wisdom…

— Walter Isaacson

“The historian Cassiodorus believed that the selective destruction of Alaric, as regards the Greek monuments, was of good effect. Alaric had some taste and…

— R.A. Lafferty

“Across the distance, the Acropolis museum cradled within its protective walls its legendary treasures, lulling them to a peaceful sleep under the eerie light…

— Effrosyni Moschoudi

“The Greeks rebult Athens, building the incredible Acropolis and the blackened columns of the original Parthenon were set into the walls. The Greeks would…

— Julian Noyce

Have any of you taken a look out at Greece in the last, say, hour or so? (Hermes) What? Are they reacting to the…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil…

— Henry David Thoreau

When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or rather the…

— Orhan Pamuk

People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.

— Giles Duley