Quotes About Greek

I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.

It's impossible for success to go to your head with a Greek mom - no way.

I love Greek history. I love Roman history.

I worked as a belly dancer at a Greek restaurant senior year in high school.

The Greek side of my family are actually all really fair.

Macedonia was, is and will forever be Greek.

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word to train.

Let me advise you to study Greek, Mr Undershaft. Greek scholars are privileged men. Few of them know Greek; and none of them know anything else; but their position is unchallengeable. Other languages are the qualifications of waiters and commercial travellers: Greek is to a man of position what the hallmark is to silver.

If, like me, you're interested in history, Egypt is a place of wonders. It's the land of many civilisations, including Greek, Roman, Christian, and Muslim.

Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder.

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.

Deathless Aphrodite on your rich-wrought throne.

Ho amato quella lingua per la sua flessibilità di corpo allenato, la ricchezza del vocabolario nel quale a ogni parola si afferma il contatto diretto e vario della realtà, l'ho amata perché quasi tutto quel che gli uomini han detto di meglio è stato detto in greco.

Sí, Atenas era siempre bella y no lamentaba haber impuesto disciplinas griegas a mi vida. Todo lo que poseemos de humano, de ordenado y lúcido, a ellas se lo debemos.

There were two further points I felt I should have made in our earlier conversations, one of them being that doctrine is not belief, it is only one way of talking about belief, and the other being that the Greek word sozo , which is usually translated saved, can also mean healed, restored, that sort of thing. So the conventional translation narrows the meaning of the word in a way that can create false expectations.

They were called Ontos, after the Greek word for thing, in part because they were ugly.

The guardians of Celtic culture, the Druids, did not leave written records. So most of what we know of them is from Greek and Roman historians who described the Celts as huge and terrifying men in bright fabrics.

Greek, a language in which everything is pronounced exactly as written

Our galaxy is called the Milky Way, and both it and the word "galaxy" have their origins in the Greek word for milk, gala.

Esta cultura griega de la conversación la tuvo presente, sobre todo, el evangelista Lucas en su evangelio y en los Hechos de los Apóstoles.

No;—nobody in England ever is taught anything but Latin and Greek,—with this singular result, that after ten or a dozen years of learning not one in twenty knows a word of either language. That is our English idea of education. In after life a little French may be picked up, from necessity; but it is French of the very worst kind. My wonder is that Englishman can hold their own in the world at all.

If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.