Quotes About Influence

This kind of thing is why more and more Christian parents are concluding that they cannot afford to keep their children in public schools. Some tell themselves that their children need to remain there to be "salt and light" to the other kids. As popular culture continues its downward slide, however, this rationale begins to sound like a rationalization. It brings to mind a father who tosses his child into a whitewater river in hopes that she'll save another drowning child.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

GREEK REVIVAL' 1669–1833

the only other force that might have exerted a compelling authority over a polis would have been religion.

to become the most powerful state in the region.

Sicily had been effectively divided between the Greeks in the east of the island and the Carthaginians in the west.

the 'decline and fall of the Roman empire' began with the death of Marcus

224 CE, a new Persian dynasty, the Sassanids, came to power.

Pythagoras of Samos, in the later sixth century BCE

Among the last words that Isocrates ever wrote, before his death at the age of ninety-eight

Sparta would become increasingly marginalised in Greek affairs from this time on.

If it had been accepted, it would have turned the Roman state into a Persian vassal.

The Minoans at this time had spread their influence right across the southern Aegean.

It really was power (kratos) to the people (demos).

But in 1500 BCE, they are not ruled directly from Hattusa.

a new centre of power and wealth has been making its mark farther north, and closer to the Aegean

were in charge and known as the Antigonids.

Constantinople was now the largest and richest city in Europe

Philip ('Horse-Loving'), Cleopatra ('Father's Fame'), Ptolemy ('Warlike

the highest levels of Macedonian society were thoroughly Greek-speaking by the mid-fourth century BCE.

Macedonian centres of population began to look like Greek cities.

Socrates had been born in Athens in 469 BCE. His career would span the entire second half of the century