Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought. — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would… — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the… — Pietro Badoglio Copy Share Image
“Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]” — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
“Do not make me laugh, stupid Jew.” Pontius Pilate had said upon hearing Anna’s explanation. “Your tribal God, Yahweh. Is a very… — Viktor Shel Copy Share Image
I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and… — Frida Giannini Copy Share Image
Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of… — Polybius Copy Share Image
“Rome Archer, if you don't wake up right this second so I can tell you that I love you, I swear I'm… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I was in London in 2008, I spent a couple hours hanging out at a pub with a couple of blokes… — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live,… — Roberto Rossellini Copy Share Image
“La DolceVita. The movie opens with a panorama of Rome’s magnificent skyline, the grand dome of St. Peter’s in the center. A… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting.… — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The fervor and single-mindedness of this deification probably have no precedent in history. It's not like Duvalier or Assad passing the torch… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
What I can offer in the dressing room is my fighting spirit, my leadership: that is what I hope my contribution will… — Antonio Rudiger Copy Share Image
“...they were no more than steaks served up to portly politicians who controlled the personnel departments of the TV stations. (Showgirls in… — Tobias Jones Copy Share Image
For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. [...]… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other… — Darius Khondji Copy Share Image
“This is the first lesson, Rhea. Men think they create the empires, but both are born of women. You will be a… — Lauren J.A. Bear Copy Share Image
When Rome's in ruins, we are the lions free of the coliseums in poison places. We are the anti-venom. We're the beginning… — Fall Out Boy Copy Share Image
We have been concentrating on the banks, business and our bellies. We have neglected the spiritual and cultural. It was because Rome… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.” — Aziz Hamza Copy Share Image