Cities Quote by Saint Augustine

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

— Giotto di Bondone

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“He (Scipio of Rome) did not consider that republic flourishing whose walls stand, but whose morals are in ruins. -- City of God, Book…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of…

— William Hazlitt

Heaven is more than a destination; it is a motivation. Knowing that we shall dwell in the heavenly city ought to make a difference…

— Warren W. Wiersbe

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Every human being and every society is what it is by virtue of the highest to which it looks up. The city, if it…

— Leo Strauss

“If Rome, was a city of vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse.”

— John Fowles

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

— Anthony Burgess

There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And…

— Paolo Sorrentino

True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.

— Timothy Keller

“If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse. ”

— John Fowles