Creation Quote by Neil MacGregor

Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to…

— Neil MacGregor

The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original…

— Arthur Miller

The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of…

— Christopher Hitchens

Most nations have some type of creation story.

— Fred Van Lente

The origin of each story is unique.

— Kate DiCamillo

The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere.

— Cedric H Whitman

The deeper I go into mythology, the more I find. I originally did five 'Percy Jackson' books. I thought that would cover Greek mythology…

— Rick Riordan

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

— Raymond Queneau

I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and what caused…

— Marvin Minsky

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.…

— Salman Rushdie

“the creation tales of Genesis are edited and abbreviated versions of much more detailed Mesopotamian texts, which were in turn versions of an original…

— Zecharia Sitchin