Rome Quotes · Page 7

“Even those who lack tombs are covered by the sky.”

— Lucan

“[Rome], who was formerly the gate of heaven, is now a sort of open mouth of hell.”

— Martin Luther

“They’re not interested in buying…they’re just lonely.”

— Michael Jagdeo

Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.

— Robert E. Howard

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

— Henry Fuseli

Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome

— Kanye West

“Now you can build Rome in a day with Cosmic Ordering.”

— Stephen Richards

Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went…

— Naomi Campbell

[William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and…

— Sophia Loren

Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]

— Suetonius

'La Dolce Vita' made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone…

— Colin Firth

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them…

— Will Durant

While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.

— Venerable Bede

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

— Anonymous

I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell…

— Jonathan Agnew

“In 63 BCE that was around a million men spread across the capital and throughout Italy, as well as a few beyond.…

— Mary Beard

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has…

— Augustus

I'm the son of Jupiter, I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan…

— Rick Riordan

“it is always easy, as well as agreeable, for the the inferior ranks of mankind to claim a merit from the contempt…

— Edward Gibbon

I love Rome. Partly because Romans aren't precious about their history and because they've got the lifestyle thing pretty sorted out. It's…

— Tara Fitzgerald

From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst…

— Ignatius of Antioch

Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of…

— Thomas Nixon Carver

My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break…

— Timothy Leary

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

— Winston Churchill

“Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave…

— Louisa May Alcott

The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as…

— Henry David Thoreau

“And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like…

— John Edward Williams

If you want a symbol of Roman power and strength look no further than the Praetorian or Imperial Guard. We could take…

— Stephen Nichols

To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman…

— Quintus Ennius

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

Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that…

— Christopher Columbus

Arcadia' was started and finished at the Medici villa in Rome.

— Caroline Polachek

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

— Alessandro Nesta

Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.

— Jean Drapeau

You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.

— Augustus

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

— Edward Gibbon

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

— P. J. O'Rourke

My worst moment in football was losing that Champions League final to Barca in Rome.

— Michael Carrick

“Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life”

— Charleston Parker