Top 29 Melina Mercouri Quotes
#1. Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
Al Franken
#2. The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.
Ashraf Dehghani
#3. You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.
Melina Mercouri
#4. We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
Melina Mercouri
#5. Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.
Melina Mercouri
#6. I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.
Michael Steger
#8. Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.
Jules Verne
#10. Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.
Robert A. Heinlein
#11. I want to believe in a personal god who looks after me and my loved ones and knows every sparrow that falls. But the suffering of one single child, or more likely, millions is evidence against that belief. The one question I want to ask god: how do you explain or justify the suffering of a child?
Melina Mercouri
#12. She gave him her all he gave her nothing she gave him her love but he broke it now all she knows is heart break
Sereana Crowley
#13. We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.
Melina Mercouri
#14. Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.
Melina Mercouri
#15. Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
Melina Mercouri
#16. Prayer - Christian prayer - by its very nature is born out of an acknowledgment of need, out of an honest recognition of spiritual poverty.
Paul Murray
#17. England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.
Melina Mercouri
#18. In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.
Melina Mercouri
#19. You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.
Melina Mercouri
#20. And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?
Melina Mercouri
#21. I wonder if the last shreds of my sanity would've vanished. I feel like I'm hanging on by a thread.
Marie Lu
#22. In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists
we have friends instead.
Melina Mercouri
#23. I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
Diane Sawyer
#24. Mistaking obsession for love is one of the greatest mistakes you'll every make
Karina Halle
#25. No matter how often I think I can't stand it anymore, I always do. There is no alternative. I don't fall, I don't foam at the mouth, faint, collapse or die. It's the same for all of us. You can't get out of the inside of your own head. Something keeps you going. Something always does.
Janice Galloway
#26. If you are not able to find peace within yourself, no one will be able to bring you peace.
Debasish Mridha
#27. I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#28. I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.
Jay Kay
#29. After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.
Melina Mercouri
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