Top 23 Quotes About The Tiber
#1. And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?
Katharine Whitehorn
#2. If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.
Tertullian
#3. I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.
Augusto De Luca
#4. Daybreak. Pope Pius II watches a fiery orb crest the Tiber. His mind drifts. He recalls that Aristotle's student Callippus once computed the seasons' duration, measuring the sun's movement within its ethereal sphere.
David Beckett
#5. Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills.
Caroline Llewellyn
#6. I'm trying to figure out if you know something that I don't, or if you're really this stupid. You might be older and therefore a lot stronger than I am, Sphinx, but I am a mother and a lot more pissed off than you.
S.R. Crawford
#7. Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice
Is that thou utterest while all else is still
The ancient voice that, centuries ago,
Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet
A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream!
William C. Bryant
#8. I like to work as little as possible to make the most money possible.
Scott Disick
#9. Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood,
Enoch
#10. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
#11. Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.
Joseph Conrad
#12. Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,
Assemble all the poor men of your sort;
Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears
Into the channel, till the lowest stream
Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.
William Shakespeare
#13. My town is broken.
From this view, I see the end.
Below, they gather.
Ryan Mecum
#15. Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.
Joachim Du Bellay
#16. I think that you have to prepare yourself mentally for show business, because it is such a tough world. You don't realize how hard it is until you're actually in it and you're actually on the show.
Carmen Rasmusen
#17. No, sweetheart. I expect you to submit. They're only padded because I can't bear the thought of so much as bruising you. I take the gift of your trust very seriously.
R.K. Lilley
#18. When I hear about some sensational new writer I sort of think, Shut up ... you've got to be around for a long time before you can really say you're a writer. You've got to stand the test of time, which is the only real test there is.
Martin Amis
#20. There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.
Rob Woodall
#21. It seems everyday I find a new road, a new person that can help my cycling better and help me understand more things. I compare cycling to life often.
Robin Farina
#22. It was Ruby's favorite kind of story: where the boys lost and the girls won and got a souvenir in the bargain.
Nova Ren Suma
#23. Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.
Matthew Arnold
