King of Sicily

Famous quotes containing the words king of, king and/or sicily:

    Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting
    doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
    Bible: Hebrew Psalm XXIV (l. XXIV, 7)

    I’ll stake all my soul
    on that beauty,
    till God shall awake
    again in men’s hearts,
    who have said he is dead
    our King and our Lover.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one’s head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.
    Giovanni Falcone (1939–1992)