Greek Quotes - Page 22

• My eating is pretty consistent. I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or fish, and a dark green vegetable at every meal.

  Veronica Webb

  Dark, Two, Greek Yogurt

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• The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.

  Rita Wilson

  Laughing, Meals, Sides

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside of (in addition to) the general and elementary curriculum, all branches of the classical high school, which are necessary for a true Christian and scientific education, such as: Religion, the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French and English languages; History, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, natural history, Introduction to Philosophy, Music, and Drawing.

  C. F. W. Walther

  Christian, Philosophy, Latin

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• What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A bulk of our real history can be found in Egyptian and Greek mythology. Yes, myths reveal to us worlds of other dimensions that make up our true reality. History books teach us that the minds of the past operated on the same frequency, dimension, or level of consciousness as we do now. Not true at all.

  Suzy Kassem

  Real, Book, Past

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• It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks

  Miriam

  Entering, Muse, Profession

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• We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Country, Easter, Real

  Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Stories of Gods and Heroes”, p.6, Thomas Bulfinch

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• The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

  Edith Hamilton

  Mind, Use, Fundamentals

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• One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way," meaning popular and superficial to be equally damning adjectives. This is related to the current tendency in the biological sciences to label every subdivision of science with a name derived from the Greek. "Ecology" is erudite and profound; while "natural history" is popular and superficial. Though, as far as I can see, both labels apply to just about the same package of goods.

  Marston Bates

  Mean, Science, Animal

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• SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Peculiar, Coffins

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.208, University of Georgia Press

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• The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless, promiscuous, modernizing lightweights, yet many Jerusalemites were already living the fashionable lifestyle using Greek and Jewish names to show they could be both. Jewish conservatives disagreed; for them, the Greeks were simply idolaters.

  Simon Sebag-Montefiore

  Hate, Names, Civilization

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• That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

  Rajneesh

  Trying, Experience, Synthesis

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• The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

  Horace

  Art, Genius, Phrases

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• Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Laughter, Taken, Weather

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.49, Verso

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• I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.

  Tyson Chandler

  War, Stuff, Mythology

  "Serby’s Sunday Q&A with … Tyson Chandler". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. December 18, 2011.

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• About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. These remarkable photos and the stories that accompany them should be on billboards from sea to shining sea, so the pain and suffering they represent might fall drop by drop upon the American psyche and against our will, by the awful grace of God, wisdom might come to these United States and her foreign policy.

  Gioconda Belli

  Pain, Fall, Sleep

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• Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.

  Richard Ballantine

  Perfect, Mind, Culture

  Richard Ballantine, Richard Grant (1998). “Ultimate Bicycle Book”, Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books

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• It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Two, People

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Mar 09, 2012

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• Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and religious healers, the imagination has been used to diagnose disease.

  Jeanne Achterberg

  Religious, Healing, Medicine

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• Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

  Larry Wall

  Latin, Intuition, Three

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• It is true that no member state can be required to make payments to others. But if countries want to offer voluntary assistance, as in the Greek case, this isn't only allowed, but it's also in Germany's interest. We all benefit by ensuring the stability of the euro zone.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Germany, Benefits

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• I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.

  John Ruskin

  Science, Wish, Nomenclature

  John Ruskin (1800). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture: Also, Lectures on Architecture and Painting; The Study of Architecture; Sesame and Lilies; Unto this Last; The Queen of the Air; The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century”

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• The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

  Leland Ryken

  Art, Real, Way

  Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.60, Shaw Books

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• Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.

  Terre Thaemlitz

  Glasses, Rose, Mars

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• My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Greek Yogurt, Honey, My Favorite

  "Olympic appetites: how 8 top athletes eat to win" by Michelle Edelbaum, www.eatingwell.com. July 10, 2012.

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• We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

  Donald Kagan

  Degrees, Certain, Areas

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

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