Eternal City Quotes

#1. Well, if it isn't Daniel X himself," Seth said with a yawn. "Become tired of living in this dump of a city already, eh? What can I do for you today? Death? Eternal enslavement? What's it going to be?

James Patterson

#2. Nevertheless, the members of the Board of Trade were so delighted with the lamps that they decided to change Austin's official nickname from "City of the Violet Crown" (in honor of Austin's stunning sunsets) to "The City of Eternal Moonlight.

Skip Hollandsworth

#3. Many of us can't go home again, whether home is Seville, Cabo Sur, Nastas, Havana, or Kansas City. Thus, we must recognize that home really lies in the eternal peace, dormant or conscious, that dwells in each human heart ... Quote from "Ms. Quixote Goes Country", a truthful novel.

LEVega

#4. Not everything can be achieved alone.

Hanif Kureishi

#5. There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're looking for the perfect city and the perfect government in the perfect country with perfect people, just wait a little while longer - it's coming

David Berg

#6. The consulships were not the only ornamental offices in Roman society: the Eternal City was filled with the comings and goings of impotent men - senators, magistrates, bustling administrators of all kinds - performing meaningless duties.

Thomas Cahill

#7. Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

Yitzhak Shamir

#8. Mom and I often talked about the trip we'd someday take together to the 'city of eternal spring' where she was born. In Kunming, she said, the fruits are sweeter, the mountains look like Chinese paintings, and the weather is always perfect.

Tess Gerritsen

#9. Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

Dante Alighieri

#10. High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.

Theophile Gautier

#11. Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

Wynton Marsalis

#12. I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

Dan Brown

#13. Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has that pale-gold quality unique to this time of year. There have been several weeks of this weather now, without a drop of rain.

Lucy Foley

#14. Hearts of gold are heavy.

Jenim Dibie

#15. If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

Theodor Adorno

#16. All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

Richard Le Gallienne

#17. Through me, the way is to the suffering city; Through me, the way is to eternal pain; Through me, the way among the people lost.

Dante Alighieri

#18. My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

Johnny Cash

#19. Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!

Olive Higgins Prouty

#20. In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

William Rounseville Alger

#21. Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way into eternal pain,
Through me the way that runs among the lost.

Dante Alighieri

#22. It's the eternal tragedy of being gay in Bombay," I lamented. "Never a place to yourself." With city rents so high, most sons lived with their parents until marriage - and usually well after as well.

Manil Suri

#23. Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

C.S. Lewis

#24. A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

Herb Caen

#25. Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.

Edgar Allan Poe

#26. The Lord Jesus Christ is preparing a home fit for all who live for Him, a place designed for the church triumphant. Let's exemplify the work of His hands, for they are busy, on our behalf, building a city large enough to encompass His people of faith - an eternal home for the soul.

Billy Graham

#27. Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

Philemon