Greek Olives Quotes

#1. In winter, when the dismal rain
Comes down in slanting lines,
And Wind, that grand old harper, smote
His thunder-harp of pines.

Alexander Smith

#2. Great minds think alike, but creative minds think like no other.

Emma Anderson

#3. We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The Washington Post asking about interviews.

Ken Starr

#4. Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.

George Washington

#5. I do not come out of a literary tradition.

Richard Flanagan

#6. If the first law of friendship is that it has to be cultivated, the second law is to be indulgent when the first law has been neglected.

Voltaire

#7. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

Jerry Buss

#9. My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

Peter Diamandis

#10. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness; ... and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.

Robert Browning

#11. Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.

Honor Blackman

#12. In the end, Edwards wrestled with slavery, defending the institution within the colonies but also calling for the end of the Atlantic slave trade.

Richard A. Bailey

#13. The Egyptians of 4000 B.C. believed that the goddess Isis, wife of Osiris, taught them how to grow olives. The Greeks have a similar legend. But the Hebrew word for olive, zait, is probably older than the Greek word, elaia, and is thought to refer to Said in the Nile Delta.

Mark Kurlansky

#14. I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy.

Zach Galifianakis

#15. God is my only leader. Truth is my only sword. Guided only by my conscience, I am a true citizen of the world.

Suzy Kassem

#16. One of those Christmas songs says, "You better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout." How's my wife going to get along?

Milton Berle

#17. We are called to serve God and not to rely on our achievement in ministry

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Some subtle influence passed from him to me, and for the first time in my life I saw in the plain woodland the wonder I had always looked for, and always missed.

Oscar Wilde