About Quote by Richard Morris

“Roman culture was marked by a reluctance ever entirely to discard its past practices, tending instead to preserve all kinds of ‘fossils’ – in…

— Mary Beard

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far…

— Godfried Danneels

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

— Hannibal

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.

— Owen Wilson

Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were…

— Brennan Manning

“Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose.”

— Adrian Goldsworthy

If Rome gets to decide everything for the north and for the south, it's not a good and just thing.

— Matteo Salvini

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

— Henry David Thoreau

The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what…

— Pope Pius IX

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

— Edward Gibbon

“Roman history also demands a particular sort of imagination. In some ways, to explore ancient Rome from the twenty-first century is rather like walking…

— Mary Beard