74 Quotes About Athens

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

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

It really does help. Games like Athens are important for us to play.

Some didn't get the job they wanted. Some got a job offered to them, but it wasn't within the driving distance they wanted to. Because of my background, I had people calling me from Cleveland, Chattanooga, Athens and down the I-75 corridor because of the needs they had at their school. But I just didn't want to leave.

Everybody is talking about Joe T like he's a true freshman coming in straight out of Athens Academy. He's probably going to be the most well-prepared quarterback in the history of Georgia football.

I think one of the greatest gigs I played, and we've had many, but to play the opening ceremony at - at the Olympic games in Athens 2004 was pretty special, you know? Because it's such a big deal for the whole world. And the whole world's watching. So that was definitely one of the special ones.

For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.

I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe's democratization.

Sales are slower for Athens than they were for Sydney.