Fervent Quote by Melina Mercouri

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

— Thucydides

Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the…

— David Attenborough

“The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This question is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the…

— Henry Fuseli

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

— Anne Bradstreet

To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.

— Robert T. Bakker

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

A heroic nature is very Greek.

— Patrick Wilson

Whatever the Letter, Greeks do it better!

— Anonymous

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage…

— Adolf Hitler

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical…

— John F. Kennedy

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

— W. H. Auden