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I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.
— Paula Radcliffe
The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
— William Shakespeare
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
Pheidippides ran twenty-six miles from Marathon to Athens with news of the Greek victory.
— Mark Rowlands
I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.
— Marian Dragulescu
Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.
— Jostein Gaarder
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
Live from Babylon and Ur, From Athens and Alexandria and Rome, The voices of a thousand generations, Press us, Urge us on-.
— Jack McDevitt
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
— Thucydides
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
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
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
— Robert South
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
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
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
— Camille Paglia
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
— Alexander Pope
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
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
— John Milton
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
— Alexander The Great
