Tiber Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.

Matthew Arnold

#3. 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

#4. Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood,

Enoch

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

William Shakespeare

#10. If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Tertullian

#11. 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

#12. In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted their assembly lines from cars to tanks and helped America win World War II.

Sander Levin

#13. We've got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds and hundreds of statutes and regulations in this country.

Ralph Nader

#14. I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

Rodney Carrington

#15. He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

Gore Vidal

#18. If she can't spell, she shouldn't be a librarian.

Beverly Cleary

#19. But maybe this is what happens when you hate someone for so long: the person you hate dies, but the hate stays with you, to keep you company.

Brock Clarke

#20. Whatever We Hold in Thought Comes True in Our Experience; Like Attracts Like; we experiment with the Law of Changing Appearances, to make our outer world reflect our inner.

Richard Bach

#21. We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Dan Quayle

#22. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

John Wesley

#23. Everything looks new, but then that is the nature of science.

Michelle Moran

#24. I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

Thomas Haden Church

#25. I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

Friedrich Nietzsche