Homer Greek Poet Quotes & Sayings

Baby," Ty whispered against Zane's lips. He had never felt this sort of heat and longing for another person. He didn't know how Zane did it, but Ty knew that there would never be anyone else for him. — Abigail Roux

Once, in his first term, Cartwright had been bold enough to ask him why he was clever, what exercises he did to keep his brain fit. Healey had laughed.
"It's memory, Cartwright, old dear. Memory, the mother of the Muses ... at least that's what thingummy said."
"Who?"
"You know, what's his name, Greek poet chap. Wrote the Theogony ... what was he called? Begins with an 'H'."
"Homer?"
"No, dear. Not Homer, the other one. No, it's gone. Anyway. Memory, that's the key. — Stephen Fry

Plato utterly condemns the poets for publishing trivial, false and indeed wicked stories about the gods, such as that they fight with each other, or are overcome by emotions like grief, anger, mirth. Reluctantly, he will not allow Homer in his Republic, and he is very angry with the tragic poets for spreading unworthy ideas of the Deity.

It may well be that there were inferior tragic poets who deserved Plato's strictures, but so far as concerns the tragic poets whom we know, Plato's attack is absurd. It is the attack of a severely intellectual philosopher who was also more of a poet than most poets have contrived to be; one who invented some of the profoundest and most beautiful of Greek myths. 'There is a long-standing quarrel', says Plato, 'between philosophy and poetry.' So there was, on the part of the philosophers, and most of all in Plato's own soul. — H.D.F. Kitto

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity. — Ellen G. White

The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman poet matched Homer and harmonized Greek civilization with Roman ideals — John Mark Reynolds

I never quit. I never quit. — Carlos Zambrano

I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business. — Jamie Farr

I actually think it's better I started by being close to customers. That foundation early on helped me later when I went into logistics and other kinds of management. — Mike Duke

I always recommend people read nutrition labels so they know, for instance, how much fiber they're getting. — Travis Lane Stork

And as we touch, I can never tell if you are touching me or I am touching you. — Pleasefindthis

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. — Henry David Thoreau

Hickory dickory dock, I just want to be your clock. Just set me for a lifetime, and I'll wake you up every morning. — Smokey Robinson

It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it. — Jason Mraz

If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame. — Alison Gopnik