Constantinople QUOTES

1 " In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other.
That was the end of holiness for both churches. "

― Frank Herbert , The White Plague

2 " Words, then, are born of worlds. But they also take us places we can’t go: Constantinople and Mars, Valhalla, the Planet of the Apes. Language comes from what we’ve seen, touched, loved, lost. And it uses knowable things to give us glimpses of what’s not. The Word, after all, is God. "

― Alena Graedon , The Word Exchange

3 " Seems like we own the day! Now die like a good Christ!

- Boniface de Monteferret, ON THE WALLS OF CHRIST

As Constantinople falls. "

― Earl Devere

4 " There was Babylon and Nineveh; they were built of brick. Athens was gold marble columns. Rome was held up on broad arches of rubble. In Constantinople the minarets flame like great candles round the Golden Horn… Steel, glass, tile, concrete will be the materials of the skyscraper. Crammed on the narrow island the millionwindowed buildings will just glittering, pyramid on pyramid like the white cloudhead above a thunderstorm. "

― John Dos Passos , Manhattan Transfer

5 " Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople one who does. "