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I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

Roald Dahl

British writer and poet (1916-1990)

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Walter Pater

English writer, critic and essayist (1839-1894)

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

George Santayana

Spanish-American philosopher

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

Nia Vardalos

Canadian-born American actress, screenwriter, director, and producer of Greek descent

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

Gilbert Murray

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

Giorgos Seferis

Greek poet and diplomat (1900-1971)

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

James Theodore Bent

British archaeologist (1852-1897)

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

Stephen Gardiner

The Sophists’ paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

David Antin

American poet, critic, performance artist

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you’re able to grasp what things mean.

Ben Nicholson

British painter (1894-1982)

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