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Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
Assumed to be australopithecines because there are no other known candidates. I
What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
Malina looked incredulous. "Are you anything more than a Druid?"
"Of course I am. I own this shop and I play a mean game of chess, and I've been told that I'm a frakkin' Cylon."
"What's a frakkin' Cylon?"
"I don't know, but it sounds really scary when you say it with a Polish Accent.
[The Albanians] seem to be rather backward and primitive people ... they can be as faithful as a dog; that is one of the traits of the primitive. Our Chuvash were the same. The Russian tsars always used them for their bodyguards.
A werewolf. He said the word like he was learning a foreign language and wanted to get the accent right.
Niki Behrikis Shanahan
Sassicaia from Tuscany,
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
coltish-looking,
Stubborn, snarly male.
CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
Prince Achilles! Aristos Achaion! As
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
Pompous worm-faced snob-head camel turd.
A greater liar than the Parthians.
Philo of Alexandria,
I met a travler from an ancient land.
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
What kind of moron wants to be a gladiator?
Christopher Columbus
hydra of revolution,
They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.
Saturnine, with thin arched brows above large eyes as black and
Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.
some evil old ruffian of a Dog-stealer
I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
Centurion! Would you like to be a cavalryman one last time? There are Venicones who escaped when your line was broken to be hunted down, and Tribune Licinius has ordered me to take the best men available in their pursuit. Leave this hairy gentleman to watch the fun, and join us in the hunt!
Tiberius Nero Blackthorn. I think his parents may have gone a little overboard. It's like naming someone Magnificent Bastard.
Alpha of the Vltava Pack. Been around since the Middle fucking Ages. Apparently a baker-of all the sodding things for a fearsome Alpha to be. We are glad we don't have to tell people our Alpha is a motherehumping baker.
Remember, our kind protects you Normals from the Pures. We are the rope tied between man and super-beast. A rope forever dangling from the precipice.
I tap Zetania's shoulder and ask, "What's a precipice?"
"A cliff's edge," she whispers.
Precipice. Must be a French word.
They are white, four-limbed, about the size of a full-grown human, but that's where the comparisons stop. Naked, with long reptilian tails, arched backs, and heads that jut forward.
Monkey People? They
-Pig.
-I prefer the term rutting beast.
Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
One morning, I woke to find Chiron gone. This was not unusual. He often rose before we did, to milk the goats or pick fruits for breakfast. I left the cave so that Achilles
I don't know why I'm second-guessing Crevan's sanity - I'm sitting here talking to a hedgehog mime.
A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.
POKSI (Physically Okay but Socially Inept)
ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
Rank, rump-fed harpy.
one that looked like a cross between a child with Down syndrome and a goat.
My last girlfriend was Greek," said the Iceman. "The shit her family ate. You would not believe. Like rice wrapped in leaves. Shit like that.
pocket lizard licker.
Crosbie teach you a bit of English, Ted?" "I taught him," said Tauwhare. "I taught him korero Maori! You say Thomas - I say Tamati. You say Crosbie - I say korero mai!
Man,
the aristocrat amongst the animals.
What's a fracking Cylon?
We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
For my part, it was Greek to me.
Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?
dressed like a 14 year old Romanian gymnast...
Rollo the Walker. Who are you?"
"Dak," he answered. It seemed like Rollo expected more. "Uh, Dak the, er ... Cheese Eater?
(whose initials were probably OCTAVIAN).
I wonder what the animal's name was.
a Nean derthal with a badge.
panchitos, blacks,
thog no girly-orc, thog manly-orc who just happens to like figure skating!
Red swine. Mother rapers. Eaters of the milk of thy fathers.
I'm not him, I'm not the turncloak, he died at Winterfell. My name is Reek, It rhymes with freak
Kosovo is Serbian, only if my mother is a Virgin
I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you ...
We have here another interesting proof of a connection between XIIth Dynasty Egypt and early Minoan Crete.
It's me,' said Damen. 'It's me, here with you. Say my name.' 'Damianos.' He
A Southerner, inferior.
Why did you call me that?"
"Cinda? Because no one else does.
Had pale scanty hair and an earthy skin;
Marine. Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction.
I felt alone on a Serengeti plain with a cheetah circling.
It means black kitten," I said with my pulse almost even again.
Ares studied me. "And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten?"
"They're wererats, Ares," I said.
He frowned at me.
"They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through.
Chamfron. Crimson silk draped his hindquarters,
Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.
FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
The name is Salvatore. As in savior.
I'm a Corgi. Note the capitalization. Many humans neglect to use the capital C, but you really should.
CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
Amphibians - the word comes from the Greek meaning 'double life.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Cannibal: epicures who abstain from alcohol and tobacco. As moral guides, they are underutilized in the police forces of modern societies.
I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.
He is called the horse
CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
Rat. A curse, an insult, a word totally without light.
Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied ...
oh no my foot fell asleep oh cronus
Roan, near the standard-bearer. And that's his brother beside
a virtuous person,
Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.
Look at this save. Cat-like, jungle-like, quick. Big puma. Big, beautiful, brave gladiator goalkeeper. Spartacus, I called him. Mix in a bit of octopus. Beautiful.
I'm a chava, a young one.
Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?
Do you know what the Sharkgard call humans on a ship?>
RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.
Coyote: A small canid (Canis latrans) native to western North America that is closely related to the American wolf and whose cry has often been compared to that of Sippie Wallace and Janis Joplin, amongst others.
None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.
You sure you're not a Roman, Annabeth? Or an Amazon?
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]
A little roving, solitary thing.
My God! Who is this creature? It considers itself human.