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Greece Quotes
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I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today. (Quote by - Giorgos Seferis)
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. (Quote by - Gilbert Murray)
Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great! (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. (Quote by - Robert South)
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Goneglimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd awayIs this the whole? (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt. (Quote by - Roald Dahl)
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer. (Quote by - Jane Elliot)
Had W G Grace been born in ancient Greece, the Iliad would have been a different book. (Quote by - Bishop Of Hereford)
I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to. [When asked whether he had visited the Parthenon during his trip to Greece] (Quote by - Shaquille O'Neal)
Egypt's might is tumbled down Down a-down the deeps of thought; Greece is fallen and Troy town, Glorious Rome hath lost her crown, Venice' pride is nought. (Quote by - Mary Coleridge)
England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots. (Quote by - Melina Mercouri)
To Greece we give our shining blades. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime, Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madded to crime? (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)