Quotes about rome
rome world wanted
In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures. George Eliot
rome seem severity understand
Rome is burning, and they don't seem to get it. I don't think they understand the severity of the problem. Jeff Cook
rome tree age
We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked Rome.Fear only feeble old age and death in bed.Don't forget who you are. Janet Fitch
rome
At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome. Horace
rome zest imagination
In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place. Letitia Baldrige
rome champion gold
I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here. Muhammad Ali
rome differences people
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. Maria Grazia Cucinotta
rome perfect evil
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly. Ned Rorem
rome republic causes
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes. Noah Webster
rome land arrogance
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. Marcus Tullius Cicero
rome etching crumbling
Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. P. J. O'Rourke
rome forever kind
If you’re looking for hope and change, you’ll find a lot of both in the direction of Rome. It’s the best kind of hope because it offers forever and the best kind of change because it happens in your own life. Mary Matalin
rome cities our-love
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city. Michel de Montaigne
rome done nero
We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned. Michael Scheuer
rome thrill charm
What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here. Mark Twain
rome cities two
Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries. Fran Lebowitz
rome doe admire
Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome? Joseph Addison
rome rivers towns
Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay. Joachim du Bellay
rome ideas age
If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.' Hermann Broch
rome branches might
All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground. Henry James
rome air target
We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force. Martin Van Creveld
rome one-day cannes
Rome was not built in one day. John Heywood
rome blood civilization
How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this blood of Caesars, this sunrise of Renaissance, this baroquery of blown stone, this warm hive of Italians, this antipasto of civilization? Shana Alexander
rome eagles faithful
We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb. Shane Claiborne
rome land cities
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. Shmuel Yosef Agnon
rome alliances firsts
These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason. Margaret Mitchell
rome theory creationism
Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day. Margaret Mead
rome
Those have not lived who have not seen Rome. Margaret Fuller
rome years history
The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction. Henry Adams
rome ancient violent
Ancient Rome was a violent place. James Purefoy
rome church england
Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome. Whether Canterbury is Anglican or not is immaterial. We are Anglicans. They are the Church of England. Peter Akinola
rome israel judging
In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine. Peggy Noonan
rome
When you are at Rome, do as you see. Miguel de Cervantes