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Ancient Greece Quotes & Sayings

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Hercules, huh?" Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn - there he is. — Rick Riordan

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece. — Nia Vardalos

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled. — George Papandreou

The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty. — Jaime Escalante

A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules. — Charles Churchill

That is the god's work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come ... — Homer

In ancient Greece, skeptics were those who thought, not those who scoffed. — Gene Wolfe

Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him. — Troy DeNuthe

Like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. — Homer

What does rasta mean? Righteousness. — Bob Marley

And besides, we lovers fear everything — Ovid

You will have memories
Because of what we did back then
When we were new at this,
Yes, we did many things, then - all
Beautiful ... — Sappho

That's how it goes - as soon as there's anything interesting in Ancient Greece, some arsehole with a magic hat comes along to murder it. — Catherynne M Valente

The model for the U.S. Constitution was not ancient Greece but the Iroquois Confederacy. Then, — Gloria Steinem

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium — Horace

of the ancient cities of Greece and — Philippa Gregory

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt. — Michelle Paver

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. — Henry Fuseli

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting. — Mary Renault

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner

You can't swing a cat in Ancient Greece without hitting one of Zeus's ex-girlfriends. — Rick Riordan

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough. — H.L. Mencken

In ancient Greece, the word for "cook," "butcher," and "priest" was the same - mageiros - and the word shares an etymological root with "magic. — Michael Pollan

The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing. — Socrates

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun. — Steven Pressfield

My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads. — Valerie June

My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much. — Skeet Ulrich

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector — Madeline Miller