Best Crete Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Self-preservation and determination meant she could get away with anything. As her law-abiding, conventionally minded daughter, I secretly envied her this. She was not the clinging-vine type, nor one who could coax sugar from a lemon. Hers was the frontal attack with no inhibitions. She told the Nazis you could not trust Hitler, and they let her go. In the days of chaperones, she hitch-hiked a ride on a French destroyer along the coast of Crete; 'All quite proper, I had my cook with me,' she explained.”

France Self Determination Self Preservation Nazis Victorian Era Women S History Archaeologists Crete Harriet Boyd Hawes

Author:Mary Allsebrook

“I had not fooled myself with false hope. I was a goddess, and he a mortal, and both of us were imprisoned. But I pressed his face into my mind, as seals are pressed in wax, so I could carry it with me.”

Circe Icarus Theseus Crete Daedalus Ariadne The Minotaur Pasiphae

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“Daedalus took comfort in the baby Icarus, and I loved to see him walking about with the infant dandled in his arms, showing the oblivious child the flowers and the birds and the many wonders of the palace.”

Fatherhood Inventor Icarus Crete Daedalus Young Icarus

Book:Ariadne

Source: Ariadne

“If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer... If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!”

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Author:Shel Silverstein

“An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite all right on this Cretan coast, and felt happy and free there and I needed nothing - but because I have always been consumed with one desire; to touch and see as much as possible of the earth and the sea before I die.”

Happiness Sea Travel Greece Wanderlust Crete

Book:Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

“Love of liberty, the refusal to accept your soul's enslavement, not even in exchange for paradise; stalwart games over and above love and pain, over and above death; smashing even the most sacrosant of the molds when they are unable to contain you any longer - these are the great cries of Crete. (Report to Greco)”

Love Liberty Cries Crete

Author:N. Kazantzakis

“Ξάφνου μ' ένα χαμόγελο θυμόμουν τους πατέρες Διόνυσο και Γαβριήλ, τους αδερφούς Θεοφύλακτο, Χρίστο και Πολύκαρπο, τους γενάτους, μακρυμάλληδες, καλημαυχοφόρους οικοδεσπότες και προστάτες μου στην Κρήτη κατά την διάρκεια του πολέμου, που ‘βάζαν τις ρακές, έσπαγαν καρύδια, έλεγαν τραγούδια του βουνού, έλυναν κι έδεναν πιστόλια, μου έκαναν ατελείωτες ερωτήσεις για τον Τσόρτσιλ και ροχάλιζαν κάτω από τα λιόδεντρα, ενώ οι αχτίδες του ήλιου έπεφταν κάθετα στο Λιβυκό Πέλαγος.”

Travel Monasteries Crete

Book:A Time to Keep Silence

Source: A Time to Keep Silence

“The gallant captain vacated his cabin for her, and Manna changed her role from cook to chaperone. All most correct. But it was hardly the done thing to cadge a lift on a torpedo boat. Yet she did it twice in a lifetime.”

Victorian Era Hitchhiking Crete Harriet Boyd Hawes French Gunboats French Military Torpedo Boats

Book:Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes

Source: Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes

“Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore, be a Phocion or Pythagorean, to speak briefly to the point or not at all; let him labor like them of Crete, to show more wit in his discourse than words, and not to pour out of his mouth a flood of the one, when he can hardly wring out of his brains a drop of the other.”

Men Mind Shows Running Speak Brain Mouths Labor Wit Every Man Vanity Flood Discourse Crete

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.”

Said Three Son Thirds Add Islands Theologian Tombs Jupiter Saturn Crete

Book:The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods

Source: The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods

“Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.”

Thinking Men Humans May Ideas Character Might Cases Objects Abstract Association Concrete Humankind Uncertain Brutes Similarity Habitual Successors Crete

Author:William James

“Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”

Country Perfect Journey Travel Traveler Inspiring Travel Crete

Book:Japan, China

Source: Japan, China

“Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.”

Years Night Time Four Thousand Years Ago Yesterday Texas Thousand Years Crete

Book:Look Homeward, Angel

Source: Look Homeward, Angel

“I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.”

Ifs House Wonder Summer Plato Crete

Author:Woody Allen

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”

Littles Happiness Felt Sound Simple Sea Wine Glasses Wretched Wine Glass Frugal Chestnuts Crete

Book:Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

“The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.”

Form Birth Diversity Europe Unity Ancient Delight Goddess Regeneration Crete

Author:Carol P. Christ

“The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.”

Lasts Worship Female Western Western Society Female Power Crete

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.”

Simple Sea Frugal Chestnuts Crete

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis

“In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.”

Art Roles Discovery Europe Ancient Agriculture Inventing Weaving Pottery Crete

Author:Carol P. Christ