Athena The Goddess Quotes

#1. If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff?

Rick Riordan

#2. (By the way: her mom is Athena, the goddess of wisdom. My dad is Poseidon. We're Greek demigods. Just thought I should mention that, you know, in passing.)

Rick Riordan

#3. It's one of my inventions-a shampoo," Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that.

Joan Holub

#4. Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.

Eric Ladin

#5. In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She'd bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena's, which had led to Mount Olympus's first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.

Rick Riordan

#6. War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

Robert Aumann

#7. There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.

John Dos Passos

#8. Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.

Pat Roberts

#9. The admirable is inexplicable.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. True Christian liberty, unlike the various "freedom" or "liberation" movements of the secular world, is not a matter of demanding the "rights" we have.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#11. During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

Anatoly Chubais

#12. Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.

William James

#13. The Library of Alexandria?" I ask. "Didn't that burn down?"
Mrs Philipoulus scoffs. "Damn fool Hypatia. Athena tried to convince her to install a sprinkler system. But no-o-o, no one was going to tell the librarianatrix how to run her library.

Tera Lynn Childs

#14. Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus , a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.

Camille Paglia

#15. Aphrodite," [Annabeth] said.
"Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement.
"Mom," Piper said with no enthusiasm.
"Girls!" The goddess spread her arms like she wanted a group hug.
The three demigods did not oblige. Hazel backed into a palmetto tree.

Rick Riordan

#16. What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?

Ruta Sepetys

#17. Through hyper-space, that unimaginable region that was neither space nor time, matter nor energy, something nor nothing, one could traverse the length of the Galaxy in the interval between two neighboring instants of time.

Isaac Asimov

#18. I'm sensitive to the things I see.

Chris Van Allsburg

#19. The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

#20. The wise are in no need to know much.

Raheel Farooq

#21. Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus?
Athena's answer : What an interesting idea ... No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt.

Rick Riordan