Governor - Holy Roman/ Habsburg Empires and Successor States

Famous quotes containing the words holy, roman, empires, successor and/or states:

“O happy, happy each
man whom predestined fate
leads to the holy rite
of hill and mountain worship.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“Riot in Algeria, in Cyprus, in Alabama;
Aged in wrong, the empires are declining,
And China gathers, soundlessly, like evidence.
What shall I say to the young on such a morning?—
Mind is the one salvation?—also grammar?—
No; my little ones lean not toward revolt.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

“The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

“Today’s difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)