Greek City States

Famous quotes containing the words greek, city and/or states:

    “Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list—the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “The City is of Night, but not of Sleep;
    There sweet sleep is not for the weary brain;
    The pitiless hours like years and ages creep,”
    —James Thomson (1834–1882)

    “My only rival, the United States cavalry.”
    —James Kevin McGuinness, and John Ford. Mrs. Yorke (Maureen O’Hara)