Quotes About Hera

They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired their filial piety when they arrived and the proud and happy mother standing before the statue prayed that Hera would reward them by giving them the best gift in her power. As she finished her prayer the two lads sank to the ground. They were smiling and they looked as if they were peacefully asleep but they were dead. (Biton and Cleobis)

Hera: Ohh, Thalia Grace, when I get out of here, you'll be sorry you were ever born. Thalia: Save it! You've been nothing but a curse to every child of Zeus for ages. You sent a bunch of intestinally challenged cows after my friend Annabeth Hera: She was disrespectful! Thalia: You dropped a statue on my legs. Hera: It was an accident! Thalia: AND you took my brother

Indeed, Hera said. ?Porphyrion, the strongest of his kind. Gaea needed a great deal of power to raise him again —my power. For weeks I've grown weaker as my essence was used to grow him a new form. ?So you're like a heat lamp,Leo guessed. ?Or fertilizer.

That was Hera. Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon.

You're already married! Hera protested. To me! Curses! said Zeus. Er, I mean, of course, dear.

Ever since my famous battle with Python, I've had a phobia of scaly reptilian creatures. (Especially if you include my stepmother, Hera. BOOM!)

I hate Hera.

Some legends say that Hera's breast milk sprayed across the sky and created the Milky Way. I don't know. That seems like a whole lot of solar systems from just one squirt

It's a long story," I told her. I lowered the blob of jelly formerly known as Zeus to the ground. "AAAACH!" Hera cried. "What happened to him?

Hera said if I proved my worth, she'd make me a god so Hercules and I could be together." Phil nearly fell over again. "Holy Hera." Red nodded. "My thoughts exactly.

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

I don't know, Apollo," Hera said, shaking her head. "That was a little . . . repetitive.

Zap them, Bolt!" Immediately the thunderbolt took off after Hera and Poseidon. "No! Not them," Zeus called in the nick of time. "The Cronies!" That was what everyone called King Cronus's soldiers. Not to their faces, though, because they didn't like it one bit. The bolt screeched to a halt in midair. Then it switched directions and buzzed off toward the soldiers.

Zeus is the king, right? (Simone) He thinks he is most days. Personally, I think he's a pompous ass who should be bitch-slapped by Hera at least once in his existence. (Xypher)

Nephele, the cloud image of Hera, went on to marry a Boeotian king called ATHAMAS,fn2 by whom she bore two sons, PHRIXUS and HELLE. Nephele had cause to save the life of Phrixus – an Isaac to his father's Abraham – when Athamas tied his son to the ground and made to sacrifice him. Just as the Hebrew god revealed a ram in a thicket to Abraham and saved Isaac's life, so Nephele sent a golden ram to rescue her son Phrixus.

Well, there is one thing. Perhaps you could change the child's name." "Change his name?" said Amphitryon. "How would that help?" "If you were to call him 'Hera's glory' for instance? 'Hera's pride.'" And so it was decided. From now on Alcides would be called Heracles.

But the eyes of jealousy are very sharp, and Hera saw them.

The Greek religion explained that diffuse band of light in the night sky as the milk of Hera, squirted from her breast across the heavens, a legend that is the origin of the phrase Westerners still use—the Milky Way.

Hera told the tireless sun, to return, though unwillingly, to Ocean's stream.

As Hera crowned the youngest winner, the girl addressed the crowd: I am the new moon, swelling with magic, pure in my maidenhood, ever growing stronger. The second winner spoke: I am the full moon, complete in my powers, making people with my rhythms, bathing them in light. The third said: I am the waning moon, easing into peace, knowing all that went before, I am the wise one.