When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.
Michael Stipe
MapBandFirstAthensStartedOff
I like living in a smaller place, but I like being in big cities, too, like Athens.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
PlaceLivingAthensBigBeingLike
Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even their later manager, Bertis Downs, they all met and congregated at that record store. So I'm sure we wouldn't see those without the record store.
Gary Calamar
ManagerSeeWithoutOutAthensSure
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.
AmericanNowKindBandAthensBeing
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.
Bill Toomey
CityGamesAthensModernEraBegan
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
Derek Walcott
CityMeCitizenHumanAthensPort
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.
GamesWillRumorsBeginAthensHost
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Robert South
ParadiseAthensRubbishAdam
I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.
Paula Radcliffe
LifeI AmRestMy LifeAthensGoing
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Alcuin
MenWiseFoolsWise MenAthens
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
Stephen Gardiner
BuildingsPoorStreetsAthensLike
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.
Shan Sa
AthensChinaPoetAncientWould
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
Alexander the Great
GoodGreatWinFaceNameAthens
I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships.
Spike Milligan
I AmGoAfraidLet GoAthensJust
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
Thucydides
JusticeWillAthensComeWhoThose
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
Tertullian
AthensJerusalem
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.
Robert A. Dahl
MenRightAthensCenturyJustUntil
I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.
Tituss Burgess
OutsideGeorgiaUpAthensJustCame
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
Edward Everett
LawBattleAthensHonorableMost
I don't want the United States to be Athens on the Potomac.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
WantAthensUnitedUnited States
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.
Mark Zupan
SportsPeopleAthensFilmOnlyCrew
We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.
Quavo
GreenRememberWatchingAthensFans
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