Quotes and Sayings about Athens

We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.

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The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and by Shakespeare. Neither knew chocolate. The Swiss are known for nonviolence. They are also known for superb chocolate.

Sandra Boynton

Chocolate Griechenland Switzerland

Greece... the most recent Greek Tragedy.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Griechenland

Everybody in Greece thinks you're the greatest thing since they put the pocket in pitta.

Megara in Hercules

Griechenland

I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

Zach Galifianakis

Griechenland

The ancient Greeks invented lots of things we still have today, like medicine and olives. And lots of things that have died out, like democracy and pillars. They also developed culture in the form of yoghurt and theater in all its tedious forms.

Philomena Cunk in Cunk On Earth - Episode 1

Griechenland

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

Malcolm Turnbull

Griechenland

There are three things that every Greek woman must do in life: marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone.

Toula Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Griechenland

There's two kinds of people: Greeks, and everybody else who wish they was Greek.

Gus Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Griechenland

Give me a word... and I'll show you that the root of that word is Greek.

Gus Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Griechenland

I had to go to Greek school, where I learned valuable lessons such as, "If Nick has one goat and Maria has nine, how soon will they marry?"

Toula Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Griechenland

The Greeks were the only ones who had an ear for music.

Nero

Griechenland

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates

Humanity Death

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Socrates

Hatred

Be as you wish to seem.

Socrates

Appearance

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Socrates

Laziness Food

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

Silence

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Euripides

Fathers Father & Daughter

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

Friendship

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

Love Eternity

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Sophocles

Mother

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful.

Sophocles

I want to become one of the best players, so if you want to be one the best, you have to elevate all aspects of your game.

Giannis Antetokounmpo

Basketball

If you are going to do something, you have to do it for yourself, and that's what I try to do. I try to be authentic and try to be original, so that's what I try to be. A lot of people try to build big brands but have received bad advice, and they don't try to be authentic and real with themselves.

Giannis Antetokounmpo

I was selling stuff probably since I could remember, like 6 or 7 years old. I was always out there helping my mom and dad sell watches, glasses, CDs, DVDs, stuff like that. Whatever we could put our hands on. I did it until I was around 17. But I was just doing it because I had to. There was no other option.

Giannis Antetokounmpo

It's my nature to be fearless.

Giannis Antetokounmpo

A lot of effort and money are - rightly - expended keeping the president physically safe. But it's up to the president to maintain a schedule that allows for refueling, so as to be physically and cognitively at his or her best at all times. That's what it means to be strong, tough, and truly fit for the highest office.

Arianna Huffington

If you want to have the clarity and steadiness to deal with that '3:00 A.M. phone call,' you should better have made sure that you're not running on empty when that phone rings.

Arianna Huffington

The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.

Arianna Huffington

In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery.

Arianna Huffington

Europe resembles a fine riverboat that was launched on a still ocean in 2000. And then the first storm that hit it, in 2008, started creating serious structural problems for it. We started leaking water. And of course, the people in the third class, as in the Titanic, start feeling the drowning effects first.

Yanis Varoufakis

Titanic 2008 2000 European Union

Well roar'd Lion.

William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lions

By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger Stadium - a baseball park as fine as Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, though it never got the adulatory press.

Donald Hall

Detroit Tigers

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Alexander the Great

Lions Sheep

Harvey Dent: "When their enemies were at the gates, the Romans would suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city. It wasn't considered an honor, it was considered a public service."
Rachel Dawes: "Harvey, the last man who they appointed the Republic was named Caesar and he never gave up his power."
Harvey Dent: "Okay, fine. you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain..."

Harvey Dent in Batman - The Dark Knight

Julius Caesar Rome

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Vienna - which is kinda the same.

Vienna

Every time I describe a city, I'm saying something about Venice. The images from memory, once fixed in words, are erased. Maybe I'm afraid of losing Venice at once, if I'm talking about it. speaking in other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.

Invisible City

Venice

So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

Madeline Wheeler in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 3

Paris

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

Sex New York City

We stole the Statue of Liberty! The small one, from Las Vegas. I won't even mention the Eiffel Tower - also Vegas.

Gru in Despicable Me

Las Vegas

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

Terry Pratchett

Amsterdam Bicycles

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