Rome Quotes

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

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.

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.