Rome Quotes

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

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.

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 in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

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.

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.

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.

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.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

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.

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