Quotes about rome
rome cities shameless
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. Tacitus
rome empires great-empires
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
rome late rounds
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome. Robert Browning
rome cities frozen
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. Richard Meier
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 ghost
"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered. Rick Riordan
rome years film
Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome. Sophia Loren
rome flying tears
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. Robert Pattinson
rome peachy
Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish. Robert E. Howard
rome purple different
When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness. Washington Irving
rome voice rivers
Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice Is that thou utterest while all else is still-- The ancient voice that, centuries ago, Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream! William C. Bryant
rome dies
Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much. Walter Scott
rome long unity
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die. Will Durant
rome cities victory
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity, Saint Augustine
rome rights leader
I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance. Yoweri Museveni