And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.
Tony Randall

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
Emil Nolde

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.
Bill Toomey

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.
Larry Summers

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
Origen

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.
Melina Mercouri

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
Morris West

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
Alistair Cooke

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
Virgil

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
Henry David Thoreau

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
Jorge Luis Borges

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
Martin C. Smith

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
Lillian Hellman

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
Robert Mondavi

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

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Robert Kennedy

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
Jan Peter Balkenende

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
Angela Carter

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
Willem de Kooning