Mercouri Quotes

#1. I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.

Jean Paul Gaultier

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

Luigi Pirandello

#5. I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

Barbara Kruger

#6. In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists
we have friends instead.

Melina Mercouri

#7. I thought you wouldn't want weepy words of love and all that.'
Belle swatted him on the shoulder. 'Of course I do! Every woman does. Especially from the man she actually wants to accept. So devise some weepy words and I'll-'
'Aha! So you accept!

Julia Quinn

#8. I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Don Ellis

#9. That, right there, is how not to give a shit, let alone two of them.

Jay Clark

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.

Melina Mercouri

#13. Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

Melina Mercouri

#14. Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

Eudora Welty

#15. Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.

Melina Mercouri

#16. We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

Melina Mercouri

#17. 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

#18. If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.

Samael Aun Weor

#19. There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

Melina Mercouri

#20. Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.

Melina Mercouri

#21. 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

#22. 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