Greece/culture/cinema

Famous quotes containing the words greece, culture and/or cinema:

“Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

“Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”
—Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)