Quotes About St Peter's Basilica

#1. Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

Roger Ebert

#2. Back home, this Catholic kid was accustomed to a Protestant culture's condescension, but here he could see for himself the world-historic glories of Catholicism ... [A Catholic American soldier's reaction to seeing St. Peter's Basilica during WWII.]

James Carroll

#3. He moved out the door but looked back, doing it over his leather clad shoulder, a sinister biker who had a light touch, a molten look, a way with babies, and a talented mouth.

Kristen Ashley

#4. It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning ... and let anything better come as a surprise.

Jules Verne

#5. Absolutely, there is a connection between food and love. I always say, when there's love in my heart or I'm feeling particularly good, the food comes out that much better. And so I think Valentine's Day is a special day.

Todd English

#6. You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.
Lotte Lehmann

Lotte Lehmann

#7. To discover that you are loved is the center of all existence. And when we are filled with this total and delirious love, little by little, we grow and love in turn. That gradualness in our journeys is a sign of the infinite tenderness of God.

Simone Troisi

#8. Words are only an eye-twitch away from the things they stand for.

Thomas Pynchon

#9. If you are blaming the oppressed rather than the oppressor you know that something is wrong.

Adam Snowflake

#10. The minute you feel like there's nothing left to learn, whether it's with your career or life, you're done.

Rashida Jones

#11. This is for you," he said, holding one of the parts out to the monk. "It's for your generosity to the pilgrims." "But this payment goes well beyond my generosity," the monk responded. "Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time." The

Paulo Coelho

#12. I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

Katherine Hannigan

#13. Christmas Day 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne "Holy Roman Emperor" in the Basilica of St. Peter. The congregation acclaimed him as "Augustus," and Leo prostrated himself at Charlemagne's feet.

Karen Armstrong

#14. Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

Martin Luther

#15. So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.

Andrea Gibson

#16. This feeling to be on the best team of the world is just indescribable.

Dirk Nowitzki

#17. I'm really proud of an independent movie called 'Angel's Perch' that you can get now on demand. It's a labor of love. People worked really, really hard, and it's a beautiful film.

Ashley Jones

#18. It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.

Lexa Doig

#19. She had no reason to cry. She was alive, and it was a beautiful day.

Hope Ramsay