Rome Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

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.

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

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.

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.

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

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.

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.