quotes about Athens
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If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.
-- Alcuin -
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
-- Alexander Pope -
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
-- Alexander the Great -
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.
-- Aristophanes -
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.
-- Bill Toomey -
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
-- Bill Vaughan -
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
-- Edith HamiltonSource : Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”
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Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.
-- Jostein Gaarder -
He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.
-- Jostein Gaarder -
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter -
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.
-- Michael Stipe -
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So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.
-- Michael Stipe -
I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.
-- Paula Radcliffe -
I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.
-- Paula Radcliffe -
If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.
-- Pericles -
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It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.
-- Robert K. G. Temple -
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
-- Robert SouthSource : 'Sermons' vol. 1, no. 2
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I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.
-- Shan Sa -
I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
-- Socrates -
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My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.
-- Stephanie Beacham -
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
-- Stephen Gardiner -
I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens.
-- Vijender SinghSource : "I am happy with my preparations: Vijender Singh". Interview, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. June 29, 2012.
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People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.
-- Mark Zupan -