Quotes on Athens

If my training goes well and according to plan I feel that I am capable of a top 8 finish in Athens. It will be a very difficult and technical course which will be to my advantage.

Author: Jonathan Brown

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

Author: Edward Everett

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

Author: Stephen Gardiner

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Author: Alexander Great

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Author: Edith Hamilton

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Author: Robert South

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

Author: Michael Stipe

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

Author: Tertullian

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

Author: Thucydides

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.

Author: Bill Toomey

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

Author: Bill Toomey

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

Author: Derek Walcott