Rome Quotes · Page 9

I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibiades…

— Edith Hamilton

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

— Michel de Montaigne

I got a real kick when a series was set in the court of Kublai Khan or in Nero's Rome.

— William Hartnell

Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome…

— Rodney Stark

“Second only to the master of us all, Clodia has become the most discussed person in Rome. Versus of unbounded obscenity are…

— Thornton Wilder

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

— William Shakespeare

I grew up in Rome and joined Lazio at 8 years old.

— Alessandro Nesta

When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

— Anonymous

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

— Ambrose Bierce

On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to…

— Daniel Webster

Camaraderie builds. We travelled together to Rome, Paris, Wimbledon, the U.S., lots of places. In a way, I miss it right now.…

— Rod Laver

“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on…

— Kenneth Clark

I pictured the two of them alone. Perhaps showering together, as Rome and I liked to do. My stomach clenched painfully, amusement…

— Gena Showalter

[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and…

— Edward Gibbon

Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we…

— Immortal Technique

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

— William Cowper

I grew up with the Rome derby, I played the Milan derby but didn't live it the way I lived the Rome…

— Alessandro Nesta

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland.…

— Cecilia Bartoli

“Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]”

— Adrian Goldsworthy

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man…

— Winston Churchill

Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must…

— Pope Francis

I love watching 'Game of Thrones,' 'Rome,' and 'Spartacus' from the period dramas genre.

— Ashish Sharma