Famous quotes containing the words roman, rite and/or mass:
“The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“No doubt they rose up early to observe
The rite of May.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“They’re semiotic phantoms, bits of deep cultural imagery that have split off and taken on a life of their own, like those Jules Verne airships that those old Kansas farmers were always seeing.... Semiotic ghosts. Fragments of the Mass Dream, whirling past in the wind of my passage.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
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