Quotes about rome
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 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 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 imagination machines
The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this. Suheir Hammad
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 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 looks world
If you want a symbol of Roman power and strength look no further than the Praetorian or Imperial Guard. We could take this one step further. It was this world of Roman power into which Christ came, in which the Apostles ministered, in which the New Testament authors wrote, and in which Christianity came into being. And to all of those things, Rome stood opposed, violently opposed. Stephen Nichols
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 names england
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. William Cowper