Rome Quotes · Page 4

Rome is everybody's memory.

— Eleanor Clark

All Gaul is divided into three parts.

— Julius Caesar

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

— Margaret Fuller

When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.

— Ambrose

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

— Alexander Pope

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“If Rome were a woman, she’d be a whore.”

— Elizabeth Geoghegan

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

— Alexander Payne

For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.

— Adam McKay

We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.

— Grazia Deledda

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

— Hans Kung

“New Rome will be destroyed By the attacks of new vandals. God always remains silent.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I've been to Venice, Rome, and Dubrovnik, but none of them come close to Edinburgh.

— Alexander Armstrong

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

— Winston Churchill

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“...when all the bullshit about rational, divinely inspired social order is put to one side, Roman law was all about defining and…

— Peter Heather

Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to…

— Henry David Thoreau

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York.…

— Robert De Niro

“I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a…

— Robert Graves

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never…

— Red Buttons

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan…

— Edward Thomson

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he…

— Ned Rorem

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity;…

— Saint Augustine

“This peaceful infiltration of barbarians which altered the whole character of the society which it invaded would have been impossible, of course,…

— Eileen Power

I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that…

— Mary Beard

“Back home, this Catholic kid was accustomed to a Protestant culture's condescension, but here he could see for himself the world-historic glories…

— James Carroll

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some…

— Godfried Danneels

It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in…

— Robert Bellarmine

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant…

— Pope John Paul II

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...Tis the center to which all gravitates. One finds no rest elswhere than here. There may be other cities that please us…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system,…

— John Adams

Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was…

— Brigham Young

We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long…

— Robert Neelly Bellah

“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less…

— Flaubert Gustave

Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the…

— Will Durant

When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages…

— Herman Melville

“One encounters in the streets, late at night on the evenings of fetes, the most strange and bizarre passers-by. Do these nights…

— Jean Lorrain

Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It…

— Simone Weil