Rome Quotes · Page 7

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

— Augustus

I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.

— Adam McKay

We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.

— Grazia Deledda

“[Italy is] A country where pleasure principle dominates.”

— Sari Gilbert

“All roads lead to Rome; which is one reason why many people never get there.”

— G.K. Chesterton

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

— Rick Riordan

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

— Anonymous

Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.

— Scott McClanahan

I'm no longer thinking of Madrid. That dream is dead. The only thing I dream about now is Manchester United and winning…

— Cristiano Ronaldo

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

— Isabella Rossellini

Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at…

— Michael Hersch

“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.”

— Aziz Hamza

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians…

— Cassandra Clare

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I…

— Robert Pattinson

Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

— David Starr Jordan

I was set free because the negotiations were successful, because there were people lobbying for my freedom, and because hundreds of thousands…

— Giuliana Sgrena

I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for…

— Madison Smartt Bell

Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob &…

— William Blake

There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston,…

— Connie Francis

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

— Pope Francis

The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's…

— Ed Stoppard

Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking…

— David Maraniss

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite…

— Henry David Thoreau

“[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the…

— Tom Wolfe

Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

“What can you possibly say about Rome? That it's eternal? That all roads lead to it? That it wasn't built in a…

— Shawn Levy

Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn."…

— Betty Smith

Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the…

— Will Durant

“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less…

— Flaubert Gustave

The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of…

— Ruth Hurmence Green

I wanna kiss you in Paris I wanna hold your hand in Rome

— Madonna Ciccone

The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.

— William Shakespeare

Wisdom's daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome.

— Rick Riordan

In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.

— George Carlin

All roads lead to Rome. All roads lead out of Karachi.

— Anonymous

“If all roads lead to Rome where would I end up if I turned around?”

— Nathella

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

— Giotto di Bondone

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

— Ashish Sharma