We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. – E. Merrill Root
Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland. – Hussein of Jordan
I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don’t do them at all. – Jill Scott
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. – Irving Babbitt
That whole heroic notion of the women warriors known as Amazons is extremely appealing. It was appealing in antiquity, and, throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, they’re always portrayed as heroic, courageous, and the equals of men, and that’s just extremely attractive and has been since antiquity. – Adrienne Mayor
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. – Arthur Erickson
The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor. – Elaine Sciolino
One of a handful of films made in Detroit, ‘8 Mile’ doesn’t feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed of in the 1970s. Instead, it’s the beaten-down city: 8 Mile refers to the line of demarcation between Detroit and suburban, mostly white Oakland County. – Elvis Mitchell
I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person… It’s the air at Harvard; it’s like a Renaissance court. – Erich Segal
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. – George Santayana
Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing – actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals. – Penn Jillette
My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe. – Lauren Willig
We’re starting to see a renaissance of investors embracing the idea that scientists can build businesses. – Ryan Bethencourt
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. – Walter Pater
The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period. It stopped in 1950. – Tony Bennett
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. – Walter Pater