Quotes of: Greek-people Keyword

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

The Greek Way

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

Melina Mercouri

When a Greek shakes your hand, count your fingers after.

Albanian

Greeks only agree with each other about going to the toilet.

Greek

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

Eric Bana

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

Katy Mixon

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

The Greek Way

An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.

The Greek Way

[It] has been said that the difference between Greek and Israelite religion was that the Greeks worshiped the 'holiness of beauty' whereas the Jews worshiped 'the beauty of holiness.

Everett Ferguson

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

Barack Obama

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

Johannes Stark

Luck is blind, they say. It can’t see where it’s going and keeps running into people…and the people it knocks into we call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say!

Zorba the Greek

I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatr...

Rutger Hauer

I would say we are a friend in need and I am sure that the Greek people would very much welcome the choice of the British people to come and enjoy Greece, first of all, but also that would be a sign of support.

George Papandreou

The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman poet matched Homer and harmon...

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displa...

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

Nigel Farage

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.

George Papandreou

A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.

Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

Helios thought he looked pretty hot, and he had an annoying habit of calling the sun his "chick magnet.

Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks an...

John Henrik Clarke