Odyssey Athena Quotes & Sayings

At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.? — Camille Paglia

The most memorable moments in life start with the willingness to be vulnerable. — Rebecca Donovan

Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline. — Bill Cosby

I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature. — John Travolta

We have come to a generation which seeks advance without ideals - discovery without stars. — W.E.B. Du Bois

This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws? — Max Planck

I have come to realize that all the thoughts I hear do not originate with me. — Randy Martin

Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored. — Neil Diamond

Truth I pursued,as Fancy sketch'd the way,
And wiser men than I went worse astray. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We're moving faster with our science and technology than our morals are evolving, we're going to have to live in the future we create so it is up to us to become responsible for what we're creating. It is the only way to avoid the probable catastrophes that will face us and our children on the way. We all have to get on the same page if we're to unify and a species and survive. I hope 'The Vision Quest' will help people set positive intentions for their lives and the world we live in, as well as give them some tools to manifest them — Deborah M. Pratt

I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East. — Rand Paul

A communist conspiracy among the youth ... speakers on campuses/trained to condition idealistic brains — Allen Ginsberg

My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor. — James Wolk