Top 1200 Greek Myth Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.
I don't temper how I feel. I'm Greek. I've got emotions.
I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people. — © George Papandreou
I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.
A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.
The Greek side of my family are actually all really fair.
I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.
The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.
And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
All you have to do is wear a hat, dark glasses and carry a Greek newspaper.
khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'.
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — © Billy Joel
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
I came from a tough neighborhood. I used to be a 'dirty Greek.'
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.
Conscience is better served by a myth.
He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess.
I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy.
I think a myth is created from truth.
I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they're really good. And there's just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that's the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there's going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things will devalue them. I don't care whether it's art, literature, poetry or drama, whatever. The sheer volume of it will wash it out. I mean, if you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good? I don't think so.
I am not a myth.
In the beginning was the myth.
Id like to live in the Greek islands
The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.
It is great to be Greek, because I have one of the best heritages in the world.
Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.
My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.
Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.
One of my favorite breakfasts is Greek yogurt with fresh fruit.
Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.
The natural-born investor is a myth.
My music had two protagonists, me and the Greek people.
My wife is Greek. I was a non-denomination Christian before we got married. — © Troy Polamalu
My wife is Greek. I was a non-denomination Christian before we got married.
I drag my myth around with me.
The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
Let's get rid of the myth that I'm rich.
Greek blood courses through me.
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
Myth is the nothing that is all.
The moment there is imagination there is myth
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. — © Anne Rice
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
The first myth of management is that it exists.
I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.
Jackie Chan is a myth.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.
"Eureka" is Greek for "This bath is too hot."
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
Now is the time to become a myth.
I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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