Quotes About Greece

Nor was his name unheard or unador'd In ancient Greece; and in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber; and how he fell From Heav'n, they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o're the Chrystal Battlements: from Morn To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve, A Summers day; and with the setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Lemnos th' Ægean Ile: thus they relate, Erring...

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

Ze pakte het volgende boek, schudde ermee om te zien of er een briefje in zat en sloeg het open. Trelawny's herinneringen aan Byron en Shelley. Ze sloeg het open en begon te lezen (want het was geen heilig exemplaar, geen zeldzaamheid, maar gedateerd Londen, 1932). Trelawny? De man die het lichaam van Shelley had verbrand en het hart had bewaard. Ja, die Trelawny. De piraat. Een reus. Ging na de dood van Shelley met Byron naar Griekenland.

The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of democracy and freedom.

The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.

To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece.

If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest

This same activity is evident in Daniel 10, where demonic spirits are called the "prince of the kingdom of Persia" and the "prince of Greece." These are demons whose function is to influence the leaders of these nations to do their bidding, especially the persecution of the Jewish people, who were ruled by the Persians

Dr. Laurence J. Kotlikoff testified before the Senate Budget Committee about "America's fiscal insolvency and its generational consequences." He flatly stated that "Our country is broke. It's not broke in 75 years or 50 years or 25 years or 10 years. It's broke today. Indeed, it may well be in worse fiscal shape than any developed country, including Greece."43

The place that gave us the marathon also gave us philosophy. That place was the city-state of Athens in the fourth and fifth centuries BCE.

Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad.

The modern idea that the female nude implies the existence of a predatory male gaze was not first thought up, as is often imagined, in the feminism of the 1960s. As Part One will explain, what is believed to be the very first life-sized statue of a female nude in classical Greece – a fourth-century BCE image of the goddess Aphrodite – provoked exactly the same kind of debate.

Greece, once conquered, conquered her savage victor and brought culture into the rough land of Latium' (better in Latin: 'Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio').

Sophocles long agoHeard it on the Aegean.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

The Classical civilisation, which Greece originated, is the only civilisation which is spread out before us, from beginning to end.

Eurozone financial institutions have sought to impose Latvia's "model" austerity on Ireland, Spain and Portugal – and most of all, on Greece, which is being made an object lesson of how creditor powers will treat countries that try to extricate themselves from debt, unemployment, privatization, emigration and demographic collapse.

The IMF also said its own analysis of the future development of debt was wrong 'by a large margin.' … The IMF had originally projected Greece would lose 5.5% of its economic output between 2009 and 2012. The country has lost 17% in real gross domestic output instead. The plan predicted a 15% unemployment rate in 2012. It was 25%.

Wisdom should be cherished as a means of traveling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession. —Bias of Priene (c. 570 B.C., one of the Seven Sages of ancient Greece)

Thermopylae – The Battle that Changed the World

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

El Occidente habrá muerto, cuando deje de ser la presencia de Grecia en un alma cristiana.

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show,Unerring wisdom never dwelt below;Folly in all of every age we see,The only difference lies in the degree.

L'alterco si spegne, i due si guardano, poi scoppiano a ridere. Uno dice: "Egyna Tourkos", mi sono infuriato come un turco. L'altro: "Scusa, mi sono comportato come un Vlaho", un montanaro. Ecco, la Grecia è anche questo. Eraclito che scrive: "Da ciò che è in lotta nasce la più bella armonia. Tutto si realizza attraverso la discordia".