“ Rome: Did You Know This? Rome is often called the Eternal City. The spirits of ancient civilizations live on in monuments… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
“It was as if all my life had been spent fighting, killing and running. I wanted peace but I knew it was… — Fredrik Nath Copy Share Image
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The strands (the gods) weave out of our mortal lives are like a pattern visible only from the heavens; we here on… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
“He bared thick teeth. ‘I am Zacchariah. My price will be right. You show me now?’ In that moment, ten generations of… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Three old men with moon-silver hair and slow, ponderous movement took him in their arms and laid him on a marble slab… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“At least I don't have to go through with my earlier plan.” Instead, it seemed she soon would meet her end. “I… — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
“The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability,… — H.J. Haskell Copy Share Image
“The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change. From the scarified Nubian priests of 2000 B.C., to the tattooed… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Marcus turned his back to her. He feared that if he saw her face, it might weaken his resolve. Love was indeed… — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“I know not how the Christians order their own lives, but I know that where their religion begins, Roman rule ends, Rome… — Henryk Stanczyk Copy Share Image
“In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The gilded wreaths and crowns that the Legion had won in the days of its honour were gone from the crimson-bound staff;… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
“So we left the spear in the wagon and I dressed and still was not sick and together we walked to the… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Today, as in ancient Rome, when all avenues of success have been traveled and all prizes won, the final prize is the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“We broke camp together and set off in our opposite directions: we of the XIIth and our allies marched east, towards the… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“[Christians] are people such as the world has not seen hitherto, and their teaching is of a kind that the world has… — Henryk Stanczyk Copy Share Image
“Criticize me all you wish,” he returned coolly, “but remember that you come to me because of the very actions you denounce.… — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
“He lay tensed beneath the worn blanket and tried, as always, to shut out the noise of the rumbling carts that, empty… — Wallace Breem Copy Share Image
“Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
