Top 177 Greek Quotes

The nomads’ egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weaving and minding children. The exotic Scythian lifestyle fueled the Greek imagination and led to an outpouring of myths about fierce Amazons, ‘the equals of men.’

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

I worked as a belly dancer at a Greek restaurant senior year in high school.

Few in Europe imagined the incompetence and dishonesty of Greek economic managers would bring the entire European project into question.

The Greek side of my family are actually all really fair.

I love how ‘Game of Thrones’ has resonated with so many people around the world. I feel like it has really tapped into our need to hear stories about the human condition, love, death, good, evil… For me, it really is a modern version of the old Greek theatre or cave men sitting around fires telling stories.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Since the Greek myths, the greatest stories are premised on the idea of, ‘A stranger arrives.’

I’m extremely into Greek Mythology and know almost everything about the classic Greek myths.

I’ve done a lot of kale as well as broccoli. I love it. Asparagus I couldn’t stand before, but now it is part of my meals. All three of those are greens that I never used to eat. Now, a smoothie for me is nothing but fruits and veggies and vanilla Greek yogurt.

I’m half Greek, half Australian.

All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan’s dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He’s a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.

Nobody knows why we’re alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront the loss of home, parent, friends and fondest pets, these films imposed shock therapy on four-year-olds.

The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it’s not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it’s not your fault.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn’t mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the ‘Iliad,’ crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it’s a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.

It is certainly possible that the Greek economy can revive and achieve some growth over the years ahead.

I was in a fertility situation publicly, so I disappeared. I was very satisfied just being to able to creatively express myself with writing. The white hot publicity that came from ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ was appreciated but not sought, so I was happy to walk away from it and then write.

I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has – which is a serious problem – is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can’t act a myth.

I’ve always been interested in the Greek tragedies. A few years back, I re-read a translation of the ‘The Oresteia,’ and that stayed with me, and slowly this idea of using some of those old legends and plays to tell a new story about modern urban life began to form.

I’d love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that.

My Greek relatives I think probably are vampires.

My father was Greek, but he turned French during the war, and my mother was French. So I’m French, but I have Greek blood.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

I like to cook simple things, like vegetable egg-white omelets; roast chicken; sauteed chicken breast with curry powder; and Greek salad. Just things that are fresh and healthy and fast and easy, because I have such a crazy schedule.

In my junior year, I saw ‘Zorba the Greek’ with Anthony Quinn, and I was transported by it. I wanted to live, laugh, travel.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, – a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

I love Greek food in the summer.

If you look back at Greek mythology and even back before World War 1, every time a team would go out to battle, they’d eat first.

I used to like Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology. All mythology!

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

I create little challenges for myself, like, ‘Okay, whatever you do in this song, you’ve got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,’ or something like that.

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don’t end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Money has an important role the older you become. To get this chance at nearly 31, to go from the Greek league to a big team in Asia and earn well, it feels very nice. The money will be security for me and my family.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

I obtained a Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Fellowship and entered the graduate program in History at the University of California. With no Greek or French and minimal Latin and German, I was in no position to pursue my classical interests, so I began work at Berkeley with little more than an open mind.

We cannot deny that 80 or even 90 percent of the spiritual treasures from the past 3,000 years have come from Europe. There is no other Greek theatre anywhere else in the world. There is no other Shakespeare, Dante or Cervantes.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that’s conjecture. It’s more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century.

The white hot publicity that came from ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ was appreciated but not sought, so I was happy to walk away from it and then write.

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I’m not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

By giving material expression to force-forms in space, the Greeks gave divine spiritual beings the opportunity of using these material forms. It is no figure of speech but a fact when we say that gods came down at that time into the Greek temples in order to be among human beings on the physical plane.

I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.