To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such… — Jeremy Bolt Copy Share Image
For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome. — Hannibal Copy Share Image
The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in… — Zuleikha Robinson Copy Share Image
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I never wanted to or expected to make a film outside of New York. New York became very, very expensive. The same… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Rome would never have need of a dictator if she had such men in office, men so united in heart, as ready… — Livy Copy Share Image
I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me… — David Milch Copy Share Image
Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I went on an organised three-day tour of Rome. It was the worst experience ever. I promised… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Theoderic ruled Italy from Ravenna, the western Roman capital, with a traditional Roman administration, a mixture of senatorial leaders from the city… — Chris Wickham Copy Share Image
“Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibiades… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion… — Nesta Helen Webster Copy Share Image
The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“The knuckles of his hand that had Shaw's name inked across them caught my eye. I pointed to them. "You have her… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea.… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
