186 Greek Quotes for You to Enjoy

There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves. Eugene Kennedy

Love Forgiveness Myth Half Encouragement Complete Our Ourselves Possible Tells Would Would-Be Imperfection Arises Perfection Missing Always Were Greek Being Different Order Being Different Us Searching Need

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American. W. E. B. Du Bois

Life Soul School Thought Black Men Girl Long Breath White Living Machinery Out Black Or White Russian Study Mortar Houses Makes Piles Boy Real Boys And Girls Cultivated Trained Greek American Send Human Whether Them Breathes Themselves Teach Brick Human Soul Strengthened

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. Diogenes

Freedom World Citizen Athenian Am Greek

For my part, it was Greek to me. William Shakespeare

Me Part Greek

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. Barack Obama

Believe Brits I Believe I Believe In Greek Greeks American Suspect Just British

I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek. Andre Aciman

Family People Speak Seven Everything Bit Members Arabic Citizenship Born Uncommon Had French Became Italian German Greek Subsequently Brazilian Turkish Acquired Languages English Many Even British

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember. David Antin

Memories Anxiety Remember Deficiencies Ancient About Poems Poets Had Always Praying Began Greek Oral Them Help Muse

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. George Mikes

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature. George Tenet

Nature Greek

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. Heraclitus

Me Made Libraries Poets Am Greek Little Professor Assistance

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it. Jackie Kennedy

You Experience Will First Lunch Pretend About Like Greek Your

Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me. Joanna Lumley

Me You Somewhere Edge Secret Out Athens All-Around Something Over Like Know Around Islands Got Enchanted Go Sprinkled Huge Greece Greek Wherever Place Much Even

As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East. Neil MacGregor

Long Beginning Gone Virtually Ran Indeed East Propaganda About Habit Wrote Contempt Said Misunderstanding How Affairs Edward Very Greek Middle Middle East Little Centuries Century Europe

Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times. Sam Kean

In 2015, the majority of refugees and migrants reached the European Union through Greece. Greek authorities were overwhelmed by the sheer number of people arriving at their shores. But they did not stay there. They were waved through to Central Europe at an increasing pace. Sebastian Kurz

People Increasing Stay Through Reached Majority Sheer Were Arriving Greece Greek Overwhelmed Authorities Did Shores Refugees Pace Central Union Europe European European Union Number

I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit. Telly Savalas

Carry Badge Merit Like Proud Greek

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. Thomas Jefferson

Consider Everything Philosophy Moral Moral Philosophy Rational Containing Doctrines Genuine Am Leave Greek Roman Imputed Which Us

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. W. E. B. Du Bois

Son World Other Seventh Gifted Indian See Born Only Through Self-Consciousness Veil Him Himself Sort Revelation Greek Yields American Roman Egyptian After Which Lets

Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. W. E. B. Du Bois

Today War Man Problem Black Nation Before Those Degraded Civil Civil War Similar Colonial Colored Imperialism Had Cheap Raw Raw Material Like Souls Built Material South Tragedy Labor Greek America After Central Used Manufacture Whom Oligarchy Million Four Raising

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored? Quincy Jones

I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island. Adam Mansbach

Bathtub Located Would Would-Be Small Like Ideally Read Island Greek

The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weaving and minding children. The exotic Scythian lifestyle fueled the Greek imagination and led to an outpouring of myths about fierce Amazons, 'the equals of men.' Adrienne Mayor

Women Men Own Imagination Minding Astonished Weaving About Outpouring Lifestyle Myths Indoors Equals Led Exotic Greek Greeks Egalitarian Children Fierce Fueled Who Kept

We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women. Adrienne Mayor

Women Thought Long Doubt Warrior Imagination Gave Archaeology Argue Scholars Names Tales Know Without Still Proven Were Lot Fitting Greek Greeks Just Storytelling Us Really Products Description Travelers Now

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