“Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.” FirstsAgeChurchChristianityMiddleIntellectualWestUniversityParisEmpiresMiddle AgesRoman EmpireOxfordCambridgeRoman CivilizationCambridge University Author:Nancy Pearcey
“I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.” IfsFirstsNew YorkBillsLondonParisGatesMuseums Author:Jean Pigozzi
“The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.” FirstsBodyGovernmentDemocracyUniversalParisSuffrageCommunesUniversal Suffrage Author:C. L. R. James
“One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again.” FirstsFirst TimeParis Author:Edmondo De Amicis
“When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.” FirstsDifferentSeeingCenturyNew YorkCourtLondonLeagueParisVitalityProgrammes Author:Thomas P. Campbell