Greek Quotes
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.
Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).
I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.
The Greek people do not want to exit the euro, and I believe the Greek people already have shown that they have made major sacrifices to stay within the Eurozone.
My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.
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.
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.
So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.
It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides
The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.
I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.
I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.
I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
My eating is pretty consistent. I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or fish, and a dark green vegetable at every meal.
On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?
In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.
The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.
The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.
And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?
He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.
In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .
I made 'Going Greek', which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000.
President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely.
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.
