Quotes of: Ancient-greeks Keyword

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

The Five Love Languages of Children

It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!

The Shooting Star

People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.

Giles Duley

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

Troy Polamalu

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

Lawrence Summers

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

John Thorn

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.

Peter Diamandis

That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

Jorge Garcia

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

Brendan Coyle

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

Curt Flood

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

Ben Jonson

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

George Papandreou

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

John Eaton

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'

John Henrik Clarke

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.

Evangelos Venizelos

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

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Edward Bond

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Aleister Crowley

The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.

Antonis Samaras

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

Mary Ritter Beard

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

Voltaire