71 Greeks Quotes for You to Enjoy

Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure. Ken Goldberg

Value Back Ancient Entertain Date Primarily Renaissance Were Reflecting Greeks Artificial Leisure Placed Chinese Creatures Designed

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. Martin Cruz Smith

Book Big Back Collections Poetry Got Bed Greeks Goes Romans

History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to be discovered and translated. We make them speak, we talk to them, and they inform what we say. Mary Beard

Nothing has done more to bring people of different races and different backgrounds together than athletics, certainly more than politicians have done. It's why the Greeks invented the Olympics. Mike Leach

Together People Politicians Nothing Backgrounds Athletics Invented More Than Greeks Done Different Different Backgrounds Races Certainly Why Bring Olympics

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.' Muhammad Ali

You Better Old Russian Beat Pole Make Greatest Said Goal Won Than Greeks America Gold Medal

Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing. Neil MacGregor

God Book Myth Beginning Nothing Creation Universe Resounding East Out Religions Had Part Genesis Alongside Surprisingly Greek Greeks Middle Where Middle East Stories In The Beginning Central Eternal Creates Play Marginal Set

Greeks have always been very confident, very strong people. That is - that is our real, I guess, benefit, is that we are independent thinkers. We will always get up on our feet. We - we sometimes act the best when we are downtrodden. Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece

There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that. Peer Steinbruck

Seriously Own Deficits Worst Out Would Case More Stuck Taken Failings Demands Make Acceptable Well-Meaning Dealing Test Greece Quicksand Greeks Get Place Interest Paid Euro Zone

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks. Raymond Moody

Time Language Thought Everyday Ancient Ancient Greeks Ourselves Tell Like Well Occurs Cultures Very Greeks Going Quite Common Dying Literature Commonly Ages Figure Apparently Many Even Speech Sleep

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down. Robert Sean Leonard

Time Character Down Moral True Been Greeks Any Interesting

Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games. Ryan Holiday

Saying Unless Has-Been Cash Something Civilization Over Since Forbidden Piles Been Hand Western Western Civilization Brands Greeks Owned Essentially Commonly Themselves Games Olympics

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean. Thomas Bulfinch

The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked, unclear as to whether they received or emanated light. Tim Birkhead

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education. Tom Chatfield

Education Art Best Focus Demanding Others Ancient Ancient Greeks Hopes Fine Fine Art Students Well Because Itself Greeks Efforts Romans Wooing Central Skilled Shout Teachers Sufficiently

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage. Tony Randall

Music Great History Crime Heritage Everybody Back Way Part Like Because Beethoven Greeks Going Just Mozart Plays

We Greeks are the blacks of Europe. Yanis Varoufakis

Blacks Greeks Europe

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving. M.I.A.

Before Civilizations Still Were Greeks Surviving Oldest

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. Henry David Thoreau

Worshipper Sincere Been Greeks

Greeks Quotes

No more greeks quotes