Roman Quotes

396 Roman quotes by 302 unique authors

The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church… — D. Elton Trueblood
I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire — Mike Tyson
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate,… — Bob Dylan
PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated… — Ambrose Bierce
I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious… — George Washington
"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision… — Joan D. Chittister
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed… — Winston Churchill
The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Congratulation s to my friends and all the team of famous the Dance of the Vampires! As the Chagal of the German production, I'm so… — Jerzy Jeszke
This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general… — William Shakespeare
There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became… — Timothy Keller
I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game… — Robert Klein
I am a Roman citizen. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was… — Israel Shenker
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities -… — Nancy Pearcey
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of… — Manuel Puig
It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should… — Trevor Phillips
The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and… — Nelson Algren
Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that… — Neil Strauss
I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then… — Grant Morrison
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait. — Edith Hamilton
The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it… — Dave Barry
We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf… — Jimmy Buffett
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time… — Lytton Strachey

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