Quotes of Frieze - somelinesforyou

“ There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural. ”

- Erich Segal

“ Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem. ”

- Virginia Satir

“ Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them… ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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