Jennifer Rowe Quotes

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

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.

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.

Israel's open-ended control over millions of noncitizen Palestinians ... has strained the country's otherwise robust democracy. The festering conflict and the country's lack of defined, recognized borders have encouraged extreme nationalism and divided Israelis. Indeed, Israel's continued control over Palestinian affairs has strengthened chauvinistic, racist, and violent tendencies on the fringes of the Israeli right.

Bad neighbors will keep cartographers busy well into the next century.

Jews, instead of being stationary like other Asiatics, were, next to the Greeks, the most progressive people of antiquity, and, jointly with them, have been the starting-point and main propelling agency of modern cultivation.

If the whole of the 20th century has taught us anything, it has taught us that borders must be respected.

I sometimes feel jealous of countries like the U.S. and Great Britain that have two neighbors. ... When you have two neighbors, you have two problems. When you have eight neighbors, you have eight problems.

The war shall give us our land. The concept of "ours" and "not ours" are peace concepts only, they lose their meaning during war.

We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.

Far more serious and lasting than any of the …[other] grievances are the feelings which Germans entertain and will continue to entertain as to the justice of their present frontiers. They may have to submit indefinitely, time may heal their wounds, but it will be a long time.… It would be folly to expect acquiescence of the heart at least in any near future.

I've been obsessed with Romans since I was a child.

I grew up in the north of England, in New Castle, which is where Hadrian's Wall starts on the east coast of England and then goes across to the west.

I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.

Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.