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Athens Quotes & Sayings

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I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life. — Paula Radcliffe

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. — Shan Sa

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are. — Thucydides

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts. — William Shakespeare

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. — Michael Stipe

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century. — Robert A. Dahl

If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty. — Pericles

I will unbolt to you — William Shakespeare

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. — Alcuin

Lad of Athens, faithful be
To thyself,
And Mystery -
All the rest is Perjury — Emily Dickinson

Pheidippides ran twenty-six miles from Marathon to Athens with news of the Greek victory. — Mark Rowlands

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. — Bill Toomey

Darwin, writing in Victorian England, shared Glaucon's view (from aristocratic Athens) that people are obsessed with their reputations. — Jonathan Haidt

The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world. — Cathy Freeman

Perhaps Zeus was king, but I was Spartan, a princess twice over, and queen of Athens besides. I knew my duty. And I would rule my own fate. — Amalia Carosella

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. — John Milton

Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man could connect himself. — Irwin Edman

Live from Babylon and Ur, From Athens and Alexandria and Rome, The voices of a thousand generations, Press us, Urge us on-. — Jack McDevitt

We must go to Athens. — James Joyce

London is - after Athens and Rome - the third most influential city in history. — Boris Johnson

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. — Alexander The Great

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life. — Jostein Gaarder

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension". — Moses Finley

Democritus is studying philosophy here at Athens. This means that he delights in quarrels. — Gore Vidal

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world. — Socrates

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record. — Maurice Greene

I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold. — Marian Dragulescu

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud. (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece) — George Michael

Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire. — Henry David Thoreau

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. — Stephen Gardiner

If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one. — Alcuin

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. — Camille Paglia

For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself. — Plato

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics. — Allyson Felix

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again". — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds. — Alexander Pope

Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were. — Lord Byron

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. — Robert South

And thence from Athens turn away our eyes
To seek new friends and stranger companies. — William Shakespeare

Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics. — Carly Patterson

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. — Thucydides

Female infanticide was as high in Mecca as in Constantinople, Athens, and Rome - a practice the Quran was to address directly and condemn repeatedly. — Lesley Hazleton

I slept as the person in Plutarch that ran from Marathon to Athens without a pause would have slept if he had not fallen dead, the creature. — Patrick O'Brian

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit. — Aristophanes

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured. — Thucydides

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew. — Mark Zupan

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England. — Bill Vaughan