"The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens"

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art"

"How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens"

"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again"

"An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise"

"In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings"

"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"

"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"

"My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India"

"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"

"Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured"