1. crete - Noun
2. Crete - Proper noun
A Cretan
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally. Saki
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. Carol P. Christ
I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer. Woody Allen
Western culture from the start has swerved from femaleness. The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again. Camille Paglia
All my life with all my heart I wanted the union of Crete and Greece. I wanted it to be sustained by profound mutual affection. I swear that was my only desire.... Greece will never see me again. Eleftherios Venizelos
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. Thomas Wolfe