Famous quotes containing the words roman and/or culture:
“The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)