Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
“In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors abdicated. Imagine twentieth-century Italy… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance. — Augustus Copy Share Image
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I'd won three cups with Lazio - then, against the odds, we won Serie A, the Italian equivalent of the Premier League.… — Sven-Goran Eriksson Copy Share Image
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Provided the gods of Rome are given their due, it doesn't really matter to them whether their worshippers believe in them or… — Philip Matyszak Copy Share Image
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
[Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him… — Frederic Rzewski Copy Share Image