Adam Quote by Robert South

Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image…

— Robert South

Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract…

— Plutarch

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

— William Shakespeare

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my…

— Allyson Felix

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not…

— Gianluca Basile

“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field, and a…

— Paul Alkazraji

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't…

— Bill Toomey

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they…

— Barbara Tuchman

You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon…

— Eric Weiner

The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the…

— Jostein Gaarder

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard…

— Corey Smith

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders…

— Brendan Myers

As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say…

— Ali Smith

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens…

— Pablo Picasso