Marina and the Diamonds Quotes

I was born into a Greek family, and it was instilled in me not only to be passionate about the culture but also to be freaky loyal.

It is great to be Greek, because I have one of the best heritages in the world.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.

I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

Greece – the mother of all democracies

I love Greece. It's really cool in the summer.

Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece. But for Greece… we might still have been savages and idolators.

There are two great centers of Hellenism. Athens is the capital of the Kingdom. Constantinople is the great capital, the City, the dream and hope of all Greeks.

I love the Greeks. There's no messing around - it's all do or die with them.

My mother is from Greece: she comes from Vrahos, a small village in Kastoria.

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. Now I understand that I've gotten to enjoy things that others have not, whether it's the laughter, the poetry of my Spanish language - I love Spanish poetry, because my grandmother loved it - our food, our music. Everything about my culture has given me enormous education and joy.

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.

I've had a very full life, and I've enjoyed it very much. I've learned a great deal and feel indebted to all the people who have worked so hard.

I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.