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 Copy Share Image
Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
When my three children were little, I took them to Rome. On our way to our destination, we went to see the… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both of us really… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just… — Maria Grazia Cucinotta Copy Share Image
I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum. — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
“Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're talking about, essentially, the Roman historians, who wrote Cleopatra into the story mostly so that they could talk about the rise… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think it's clever how Rome have kept a load of old stuff. There's no overheads, yet people are going over there… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbours; Let him think… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
