Romans Quotes

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews.

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

We were all Romans once, I guess.

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.