Top 184 Athens Quotes & Sayings

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

Athens is an amazing city for creativity. I bought a house there. A little, tiny place.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

We're from Athens, Alabama. That's my town. People think it's Muscle Shoals, but they have no idea. It's a quiet, sleepy little town, about 45 minutes from Muscle Shoals. It's really hard to be a band in Athens; there are no venues.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

When I won gold in Athens, I said to my wife Cath, who was pregnant, 'This baby of ours will never want for anything.' There was real pride in that - but it just didn't happen.

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.

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

I don't want the United States to be Athens on the Potomac.

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.

Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.

As a 12-year-old when I won my first gold in Athens, I wanted people to know what the Paralympic games were.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

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.

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

I used to say that the newspapers were tomorrow's fish and chip paper, but I didn't really mean it; I could still be hurt by what they said. After Athens, I just didn't care.

This taste of freedom is still bitter because left in Athens are my wife and my two children and because so many of my comrades are suffering.

A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics.

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.

I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe's democratization.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

Athens is one of those cities that is very livable. And it's inexpensive. You can get by. And that makes for creativity. So people tend to stay there. I still have some friends there that never left.

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

What is the most important moment in my career? The Champions League final played in Athens in 2007 when I netted a double.

After watching the Athens Paralympics in 2004, I looked at the swimmers and thought, that's cool. I want to do that.

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.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.

I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.