Greece Quotes
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Greece Quotes & Sayings
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Hercules, huh?" Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn - there he is.
— Rick Riordan
Life - with or without softener- is hard
— Kate Papas
I like organised things. I don't like the corruption and slowness of Greece.
— Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Hey! I'm talkin' to you, feta bread!
— Turkey
What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.
— Mary Renault
The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.
— George Papandreou
In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.
— George Papandreou
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Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.
— Gerald Durrell
The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.
— Jean-Claude Juncker
In the long term, Greece is an important market for us.
— Jochen Zeitz
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I lived in Greece. I had a lot of party experience there.
— Sarah Wright
Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.
— Lucas Papademos
I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times
— John Archibald Wheeler
Oh my God, I grew up in the kitchen. Absolutely. The kitchen, for me, is home.
— Princess Tatiana Of Greece And Denmark
I've turned it into the constant pursuit of natural and healthy living, which is much more than just exercise and how you eat. It's a way of life.
— Princess Tatiana Of Greece And Denmark
Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him.
— Troy DeNuthe
Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life."Patricia Briggs. — Demetra Angelis Foustanellas
Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.
— Lucas Papademos
I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.
— Lucas Papademos
Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.
— Evangelos Venizelos
I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.
— Lucas Papademos
One of the first lessons of life in Greece is that everything is difficult and nothing is impossible.
— John Mole
The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic
— Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.
— Antonis Samaras
The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.
— Alan Greenspan
Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.
— Loukas Tsoukalis
We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.
— George Papandreou
This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector
— Madeline Miller
We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
— Mark Rutte
... but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
— Homer
We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
— Simonides Of Ceos
Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love.
— Mary Renault
brown-capped porcini, yellow chanterelles, and oysters, every hillside ablaze with multicolored mushrooms, tasty and not nourishing in the slightest.
— Ioanna Karystiani
In ancient Greece, the word for "cook," "butcher," and "priest" was the same - mageiros - and the word shares an etymological root with "magic.
— Michael Pollan
Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.
— George Papandreou
Greece is the mother of science and the source of knowledge.
— Mehmed The Conqueror
Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!
— Lord Byron
We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece.
— Martin Schulz
Greece is the most magical place on Earth.
— Kylie Bax
Life is a journey, but it's not about the places along the way, it's about the people that give you a piece of themselves.
— Stavro Nashi
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.'To live alone?'
To live. With what you are. — John Fowles
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.
— Steven Pressfield
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
— William Cowper
When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
— Clarence Day
You can't swing a cat in Ancient Greece without hitting one of Zeus's ex-girlfriends.
— Rick Riordan
We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.
— Wolfgang Schauble
The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece.
— Hanya Yanagihara
Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.
— Antonis Samaras
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
— John Milton
Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance
— Samuel Johnson
I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.
— Michelle Paver
We need a president who can solve our problems, bring us together. We're becoming Greece if we don't work together.
— Lindsey Graham
My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.
— George Papandreou
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Those who are saying that Mario Draghi is in the camp of those trying to push Greece outside the Euroarea, are wrong.
— Jean-Claude Juncker
Laurene, Eve, Erin, and Lisa at the Corinth Canal in Greece, 2006: For young people, this
— Walter Isaacson
What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains.
— Alexis Tsipras
A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.
— Alexis Tsipras
I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
— Victor Ponta
Greece wishes to be part of the eurozone, but it must, of course, go through with the necessary reforms to make this happen.
— Angela Merkel
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.
— Melina Mercouri
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.
— Charles Lindbergh
Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad.
— Martha Gellhorn
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
— John Henrik Clarke
The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.
— Bertrand Russell
Greece is a good place for rebirths.
— Judith Martin
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
— Sophocles
I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth.
— Jean-Claude Juncker
The Arab world translates about 330 books annually, one-fifth of the number that Greece translates.
— Anonymous
I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.
— Lucas Papademos
The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey.
— Ali Babacan
I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece.
— Wolfgang Schauble
Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ...
— Nancy Mitford
