Capitoline Hill Quotes

#1. NOMISMA, MEANING 'COIN', was used by both Greeks and Romans. Our own word 'money' derives, via the French monnaie, from the Latin moneta, meaning the mint, where coins are struck. (In early Rome the mint was situated on the Capitoline Hill in the temple of Juno Moneta.)

Norman Davies

#2. Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#3. But the ground rumbled with a growing, urgent thunder.

Steven Erikson

#4. From the street below, the SYLK Institute building resembled a perfectly faceted aquamarine obelisk, rising from the cracked concrete and asphalt of the nation's capital city.

Jonathan Marker

#5. Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.

Tim Walberg

#6. Over the years, I have been fortunate to get to play a lot of really kick-ass girls.

Summer Glau

#7. I've never been to a race car race before.

Christina Ricci

#8. If life hands you a lemon, don't complain, but instead make lemonade to sell those who are thirsty from complaining.

Napoleon Hill