If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.
I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life growing up. My father was very much adamant that we would learn about our culture. It's a very rich culture to be a part of since it has such a great history behind it. I definitely carry that in my job, and I am very passionate.
My mother is from Greece: she comes from Vrahos, a small village in Kastoria.
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
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.
Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.
Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.
I had the privilege of living in Greece in the early 1970s.
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
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.
I love Greece. It's really cool in the summer.
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.
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
I love the Greeks. There's no messing around - it's all do or die with them.
Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.
My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.
In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.
