Greek Myth Quotes:

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

- Mads Mikkelsen

topic: Greek, Littles, Far Away, Nordic, Greek Myth

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

- Plato

topic: Two, Greek, Half, Condemning, Zeus

I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

- David S. Goyer

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Book, Long, Greek, Greek Myth

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

- E. O. Wilson

source: "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson (Chapter One: The Ionian Enchantment), www.nytimes.com. 1998.

topic: Ambition, Knowledge, Science, Pursuit Of Knowledge, Greek Myth

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

- Michael Franti

topic: Stars, War, Long, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

- Vladimir Nabokov

source: "Strong Opinions" by Vladimir Nabokov, (p. 66), 1973.

topic: Believe, Psychology, Greek, Old Greek, Private Parts

I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into the plays of Aeschylus and follow what happens when people seek revenge, and there are people plucking their eyes out. And Greek mythology is filled with all kinds of monsters and whatnot.

- Wes Craven

source: Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

topic: Western Civilization, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology

I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.

- Anne Fortier

topic: Believe, Warrior, Past, Greek Myth

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

- Devdutt Pattanaik

topic: Hero, Vocabulary, Greek, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology

We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Children, Divorce, Home, Stepchild, New Parents

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

- Tom Wolfe

topic: Thinking, Greek, Age, Greek Myth, Norse

One of the things that really intrigued us the most about the whole Wonder Woman mythology is the actual mythology of it. Her character has distinct roots in classic Greek mythology.

- Bruce Timm

topic: Character, Roots, Greek, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology

Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.

- Marge Piercy

source: Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

topic: Mother, Memories, Moving, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology

For the liver, what's so interesting is that there's no stem cell in the liver. So the normal liver actually can regenerate. It's one of the only organs in the human body that can do this, and we've known this since the time of Greek mythology.

- Sangeeta N. Bhatia

topic: Cells, Interesting, Greek, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology

All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed in some form. But they all went east. That's where a Greek went to make his bones so to speak. And Alexander the Great was the first man who actually went east not to plunder, not to loot and come back to Greece - which is where the Macedonians wanted to go back with the money. He stayed. And he became half-Eastern.

- Oliver Stone

source: Source: www.chud.com

topic: Hero, Men, Greek, Perseus, Theseus

I just always loved mythology, ever since I was a kid. Greek mythology was something I remember learning about in fourth grade, and Egypt, too, and something about both those things just clicked with me. I just thought they both were so beautiful and interesting to learn about.

- Brie Larson

source: Source: dailydead.com

topic: Beautiful, Kids, Egypt, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. To keep these characters static - like Superman was invented in the '30s, Wonder Woman in the '40s - if they were still operating under those kinds of constraints, they'd die. These pop cultures, just like Greek myths, they have to reflect the time their stories are being told. That's what makes them relevant.

- Brian Azzarello

topic: Character, Greek, Culture, Greek Myth

You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necessary with no regard to the damage it may do. I would be careful if I were you. Friends and objects of deities’ desires dropped like flies. In the end the gods always ended up miserable and alone." — Kate Daniels

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.68, Penguin

topic: Mean, Giving, Empathy, Kate, Greek Myth

THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of Posidon. The original Perseus was one of the only heros in the greek myths who got a happy ending. The others died-betrayed, mauled, mutilated, poisoned, or cursed by the gods. My mom hoped i would inherit Perseus's luck. Judging by how my life was going so far, i wasn't too optimistic.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Mom, Hero, Optimistic, Perseus, Greek Myth

I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say anything else to those whom we instruct in divine things, but merely command them to believe. They accuse the apostles of ignorance, labelling them barbarians, because they do not have the subtlety of eloquence; and they say that the cult of martyrs is ridiculous, considering it completely absurd for the living to seek assistance from the dead.

- Theodoret

topic: Believe, Ignorance, Greek, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology

I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn't heard of the books, but I was told they were very popular amongst the kids, so I got a hold of them and read them. I totally got it!

- Steve Valentine

topic: Book, Kids, Passion, Arthurian Legend, Greek Myth

Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.

- William Butler Yeats

source: William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

topic: Italian, Men, Land, English History, Greek Myth

Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don’t see the need. It’s easier just to have folks explain stuff.

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2012). “The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus)”, p.58, Penguin UK

topic: Book, Years, Practice, Greek Myth

You think I'm cute?" He said thinkly, pulling on her hand. She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're..." Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god.

- Rainbow Rowell

topic: Cute, Beautiful, Caring, Stop Caring, Greek Myth

Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.

- John C. Wright

topic: Uplifting, Dream, Brother, Comical, Wright Brothers

Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.

- Emma Thompson

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

topic: Christian, Children, Understanding, Greek Myth

I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger Games.

- Isabelle Fuhrman

source: "Need to Meet: Isabelle Fuhrman". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. March 1, 2012.

topic: Strong, Games, Katniss, Artemis, Greek Myth

Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

- Kathleen Tessaro

topic: Creativity, Character, People, Irritants, Rough Edges

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

topic: Real, Book, Past, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

- Lord Byron

topic: Real, Greek, Doubt, Absolution, Incense

The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

- Ernie Isley

topic: People, Greek, Bakers, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology

NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

- Steve Sabol

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

topic: Years, Nfl, People, Creative Vision, Greek Myth

Plays are just all sort of playful asides, and there's a great deal of reference here to Greek mythology, plays, and dramas. The idea of the chorus is really important in Greek drama and I loved the idea of including that.

- Lauren Groff

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Drama, Greek, Important, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

- George Saunders

topic: Kids, Greek, World, Brady Bunch, Brady

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

- Tyson Chandler

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

topic: War, Greek, Stuff, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology

I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse, the Persian, the Indian, Egyptian, etc. - all came later. First and foremost were the Greeks, and they were all living in my head as though I were Zeus and they were a clamoring Chorus of Athenas.

- Vera Nazarian

source: Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

topic: Epic, Greek, Firsts, Egyptian, Athena

All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards.

- Louis Leterrier

topic: Superhero, Greek, Capes, Greek God, Greek Myth

The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters, rascally, fornicators, that's a similarity to Greek mythology, for instance, you know. They're not saints, they're not saints. They're powerful. It's why they're not tyrannical. Of course, a number of them are also very, you know, benevolent, you know, there are saintly virtues to be found in them.

- Wole Soyinka

source: Source: www.nobelprize.org

topic: Powerful, Numbers, Greek, Mischievous, Tricksters

In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...

- Hyman Rickover

source: "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

topic: Greek Myth, Greek Mythology

My Greek mythology is not strong enough.

- Karl Rove

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Strong, Greek, Enough, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology