Greece/culture

Famous quotes containing the words greece and/or culture:

    “All that grave weight of America
    Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome.
    The future in ruins!”
    —Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

    “Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.”
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)