Quotes About Greek Family

#1. When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food ... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

Cat Cora

#2. Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

Alan Alda

#3. For ten generations her family had styled themselves pharaohs. The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor.

Stacy Schiff

#4. I was pondering the Greek ideals of love. Agape, of course, the highest love, the love that Gods feel. Then eros, romantic love; and philia, the love of friends; and storge, the love of family.

Cassandra Clare

#5. Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends.

Eraldo Banovac

#6. Sometimes things just don't make sense. Sometimes we never have answers to these questions.

Corinne Michaels

#7. Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Alfred De Vigny

#8. We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

Zach Galifianakis

#9. I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

Jay Baruchel

#10. I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.

Larry David

#11. Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'

Hilaire Belloc

#12. Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

Lord Acton

#13. I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a nanosecond kind of listener, but if I'm driving I would be listening to a Merle Haggard box set. It's a weird experience listening to 'Working Man Blues' by Merle Haggard and cruising around in a Porsche.

Jason McCoy

#14. 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

#15. Nor was there a Greek word for "incest." The Ptolemies carried the practice to an extreme. Of the fifteen or so family marriages, at least ten were full brother-sister unions.

Stacy Schiff

#16. My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python.

Allan Dare Pearce

#17. ABC Family is ready to get a new image for themselves, and I think 'Greek' really kind of started that change.

Scott Michael Foster

#18. His family included all the demigods who fought at his side, Roman and Greek, new friends and old. He wasn't going to let anyone break his family apart.

Rick Riordan

#19. In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

Starhawk

#20. When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

George Saunders

#21. It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

Martin Scorsese

#22. Sometimes pain is the call of a wound that needs tending, and sometimes it is the sting of its healing.

Melissa Febos

#23. I just see me, an ordinary girl. I know my life is not typical, but I have tried to stay really grounded and true to myself. My family really helps me with that.

Zendaya

#24. Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

Jose Marti

#25. Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.

Vannevar Bush

#26. My last girlfriend was Greek," said the Iceman. "The shit her family ate. You would not believe. Like rice wrapped in leaves. Shit like that.

Neil Gaiman

#27. Goblins do not feel the way mortals do," he went on. "You humans live and love so fiercely. We crave that. We need that. That fire sustains us. It sustains me.

S. Jae-Jones

#28. This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

John Thorn

#29. My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.

James Costos