Marble Quote by Melina Mercouri Download Open image “There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.” — Melina Mercouri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Marble
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely. — Mary Leakey Copy Share Image
Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures. — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel. — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
I want to believe in a personal god who looks after me and my loved ones and knows every sparrow that falls. But the… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists -- we have friends instead. — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon. — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present. — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments. — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back. It wasn't… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr.,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting pulled up… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs...and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue...and I'd… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“Well, we were always going to fail that one,” said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fortunately, when we have all our marbles, we can shift our memories very quickly. — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
