124 Quotes About Greece

I think the secret is that it belongs to all of us - to us of the West. We've learned to think in its terms, and to live in its laws. It's given us almost everything that our world has that is worthwhile. Truth, straight thinking, freedom, beauty. It's our second language, our second line of thought, our second country. We all have our own country -- and Greece.

… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.

I'm looking at the sea on the wall, andeven though it's a copy of a copy of the Aegean,I wish you would grab me and take me to Greece.

Just below him Mars Hill looked like a shiny, rose-tintedwalnut, and the words from the book of Acts that Paul theapostle had spoken there ran through his mind.'I see that in every way you Athenians are veryreligious. For as I walked through your city andlooked at the places where you worship, I foundan altar on which is written, ‘To an UnknownGod.’ That which you worship, then, eventhough you do not know it, is what I nowproclaim to you.

كان الحزن متاهة يونانية لا يمكن لبكرة أن تخرجنا منها، ولكن وجود من يقف في جوارنا يمكن أن يقنعنا بإمكانية التعايش معه ونسيانه وتقبل الأمر الواقع.

Bible is a window into the life and practices of the people who lived in Israel and bordering nations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Judea.

My eyes suddenly caught a vandalized sign on a door in a tight corner near Thrasyllou Street, which seemed like an intelligent twist of Charles Bukowski’s famous line “find what you love and let it kill you.” The line on the vandalized sign reversed this to make the meaning even more intense: “find out what kills you and love it!

Why should I fear death?If I am, then death is not.If Death is, then I am not.Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.Religious tyranny did domineer.At length the mighty one of GreeceBegan to assent the liberty of man.