Roman Quotes

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.

Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research.

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.