Rome Quotes · Page 14

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in…

— Eleanor Clark

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

— Frank Gehry

I was thinking of winning the Scudetto in Rome. I did not succeed, but I grew as a goalkeeper.

— Wojciech Szczesny

I'm no longer thinking of Madrid. That dream is dead. The only thing I dream about now is Manchester United and winning…

— Cristiano Ronaldo

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

— Isabella Rossellini

Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at…

— Michael Hersch

“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.”

— Aziz Hamza

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

— Caroline Lawrence

“The entire stock of relationships which suited in war—militiae—was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace—domi. We have the measure of how…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Rome has New York's formlessness, aimlessness, a kind of hard-boiled sophistication, blase about everything. In their filmmaking, too, the Italians have this…

— Paul Morrissey

In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance…

— Dan Brown

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of…

— Anonymous

“He turns toward the voice. It is as though the darkness itself has spoken. But when he looks closer he can make…

— Lucy Foley

[Pope Francis] has done this not through angry speeches, but through the powerful symbols and examples of embracing a badly deformed man,…

— John I. Jenkins

Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical…

— H. P. Lovecraft

The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the…

— Henry Adams

In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most…

— Edward Gibbon

“Sir, you do understand that - officially - I'm not actually a centurion. I haven't even been assigned to a legion yet.'…

— Nick Brown

Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we…

— Raymond S. Moore

I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They…

— Mary Gaitskill

Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that…

— Christopher Columbus

The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the true face…

— Pope Benedict XVI

To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman…

— Quintus Ennius

Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because…

— Victor Davis Hanson

We have been concentrating on the banks, business and our bellies. We have neglected the spiritual and cultural. It was because Rome…

— Gutzon Borglum

I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other…

— Darius Khondji

“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

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

I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. [...]…

— Sandra Cisneros

We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered…

— Shane Claiborne

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior…

— Ambrose Bierce

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

— Pierre Corneille

Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in…

— Zuleikha Robinson

I never wanted to or expected to make a film outside of New York. New York became very, very expensive. The same…

— Woody Allen

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

— John Henrik Clarke

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms…

— Anonymous

I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to…

— Kevin Macdonald

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York…

— John Lennon

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already…

— John Lothrop Motley

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify…

— Arthur Helps