Quotes about rome
rome long wish
If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles. Richard Rodriguez
rome cities our-love
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city. Michel de Montaigne
rome senators
Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.
rome doe admire
Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome? Joseph Addison
rome years church
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. John Foxe
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 one-day cannes
Rome was not built in one day. John Heywood
rome church goes-on
The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. Mary Douglas
rome land feet
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. Pope John Paul II
rome exile
Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am. Pierre Corneille
rome me-alone
Rome alone can resist Rome.
rome here-i-am littles
When I saw from Rome that catastrophe (brought by Yolanda) I had to be here. And on those very days I decided to come here. I am here to be with you – a little bit late, but I’m here. Pope Francis
rome ghost
"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered. Rick Riordan
rome play burning
Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner! Red Buttons
rome religion ashes
And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm. Sam Harris
rome exhausted tricks
The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted. Ron Paul
rome victory culture
We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism. Rosa Luxemburg
rome paris village
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter? Ralph Waldo Emerson
rome devil london
And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
rome london epitome
London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
rome togas remember
Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome. Les Wexner
rome church murder
Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question. Julius Streicher
rome internet watersheds
Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome Kanye West
rome sublime shifting
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic. Paolo Sorrentino
rome never-change
I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes. Owen Wilson
rome bored people
I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again."
rome espresso ducks
I like the Valentino store in Rome.Because in Rome when I'd be riding my bike, that store is right next to the Spanish Steps, and it gets so crowded there, so I could sometimes duck into the Valentino store and go up to the top floor and have a little espresso and just relax and take it easy.
rome months six
I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.
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 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 careers century
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career. John Lothrop Motley
rome purple bed-sheets
It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.
rome significant pantheon
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. Tadao Ando