Greece/culture/sports

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

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

“... good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)