Rome famous quotes

IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE COULD LEARN WHAT I KNOW OF THE FIERCE HATRED OF THE PRIESTS OF ROME AGAINST OUR INSTITUTIONS, OUR SCHOOLS, OUR MOST SACRED RIGHTS, AND OUR SO DEARLY BOUGHT LIBERTIES, THEY WOULD DRIVE THEM OUT AS TRAITORS!
-- Abraham Lincoln

#School #Rights #Rome

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.
-- Adam DeVine

#Smart #Rome #President

I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
-- Adam Weishaupt

#Rome #World #Proud

I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Christian #Fire #Rome

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.
-- Alastair Reynolds

#Rome #Manhattan #Earth

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Rome #Doe #Casts

Ask me that again next month, when you're all in Dhaka and I'm in Rome, watching Chelsea playing Lazio!
-- Alec Stewart

#Regret #Rome #Next

See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
-- Alexander Pope

#Rome #Years #Broken

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
-- Alexander Pope

#Art #Eagles #Rome

As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world.
-- Ali Smith

#Stars #Rome #Names

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.
-- Alice Meynell

#Clouds #Rome #Age

When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.
-- Ambrose

#Rome #Giving #Church

If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
-- Ambrose

#Rome #Style #Elsewhere

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
-- Ambrose

#Rome #Giving #Church

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

#Travel #Rome #Elsewhere

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Rome #Two #Church

OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Rome #Enemy #Honor

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.
-- Amedeo Modigliani

#Rome #Meditation #Harmony

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
-- Anatole Broyard

#Rome #Cities

I saw also the relationship between the two popes I saw how baleful (evil; harmful) would be the consequences of this false church. I saw it increase in size; heretics of every kind came into the city (of Rome) Once more I saw the Church of Peter was undermined by a plan evolved by the secret sect (Masonry), while storms were damaging it.
-- Anne Catherine Emmerich

#Cities #Two #Rome

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

#Rome #Cities #Belief

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
-- Arthur Erickson

#Rome #Expansion #World

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
-- Arthur Helps

#Kings #War #Rome

Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough

#Believe #Wine #Rome

Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to — Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Memories #Mean #Rome

I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.
-- Augusto De Luca

#Mother #Running #Rome

Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Christian #Cutting #Rome

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

#Latin #Rome #Cities

Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?!
-- Augustus

#Daughter #Rome #My Daughter

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
-- Augustus

#Rome #Wife #Nuisance

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
-- Augustus

#Rome #Wife #Nuisance

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

#Cheer #Heart #Rome

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

#Rome #Lows #Highs And Lows

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

#Rome #Lessons #Matter

One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Tired #Rome #Wish

And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
-- Barry Goldwater

#Government #Rome #Civilization

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
-- Benjamin Tucker

#Rome #House #Half

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement. For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
-- Benjamin Tucker

#School #Rome #Names

Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci

#Rome #London #Pavement

One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Believe #Rome #Progress

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." "But you're still a Brooklynite." "I wouldn't want that to get around, Annie." "You don't mean that, Carl." "Ah, we might as well call them beanies, Annie." "Why?" "When in Rome do as the Romans do." "Do they call them beanies in Rome?" she asked artlessly. "This is the silliest conversation...
-- Betty Smith

#Mean #Rome #Want

It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.
-- Bobby Dodd

#Christian #Lsu #Rome

Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.
-- Bud Wilkinson

#Basketball #Self #Rome

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
-- C. Wright Mills

#Paris #America #Rome

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
-- Caroline Lawrence

#Writing #Rome #Machines

No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.
-- Carroll Quigley

#War #Rome #Years

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
-- Caterina Murino

#Rome #Acting #Done

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones

#Thinking #Rome #Firsts

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#School #Rome

Because modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ.
-- Charles Chiniquy

#Powerful #Rome #Enemy

Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors ... had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America.
-- Charles Chiniquy

#America #Rome #Law

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.
-- Chris Johnson

#Inspirational #Rome #Enemy

Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages.
-- Christopher Columbus

#Honesty #Lying #Rome

Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
-- Clare Boothe Luce

#Art #Rome #Cities

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.
-- Claudius Claudianus

#Rome #Traitor

There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.
-- Connie Francis

#Rome #Boston #Cities

I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.
-- Cory Monteith

#Rome #Airports #Shooting

The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.
-- Cullen Murphy

#Fall #Makeup #Rome

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Rome #America #Evil

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.
-- Dalton Trumbo

#Men #Rome

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.
-- Dave Hickey

#Sacrifice #Thinking #Rome

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.
-- David Ben-Gurion

#Israel #Rome #Cities

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.
-- David Naughton

#Italian #Rome #Film

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

#Rome #America #Long

When I was a teenager, I went on an organised three-day tour of Rome. It was the worst experience ever. I promised myself that I would never travel like that again, with someone telling you what to see and what not to see.
-- Diego Luna

#Teenager #Rome #Three

A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.
-- Douglas Wilson

#Christian #Two #Rome

The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

#Country #Rome #Paris

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident and removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of the ruin is simple and obvious: and instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed we should rather be surprised that it has subsisted for so long.
-- Edward Gibbon

#Simple #Greatness #Rome

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
-- Edward Gibbon

#Rome #People #History

But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral of physical government of the world.
-- Edward Gibbon

#Government #Rome #History

It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.
-- Edward Gibbon

#Sex #Numbers #Rome

At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.
-- Edward Gibbon

#Rome #Years #Cities

If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.
-- Edward Gibbon

#Loss #Rome #History

Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates who reigned in the capital of the East was rejected in the purer schools of Rome and Alexandria.
-- Edward Gibbon

#School #Rome #Years

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

#Fall #Rome #Christianity

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.
-- Edward Thomson

#Bible #Philosophy #Rome

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn ...
-- Eleanor Clark

#Rome #Impossible #Century

Rome is everybody's memory ...
-- Eleanor Clark

#Memories #Rome

Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.
-- Eleanor Clark

#Home #Rome #Cities

It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window ...
-- Eleanor Clark

#Party #Rome #Giving

Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.
-- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

#Prayer #Rome #Law

The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Yoga #Rome #Culture

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Believe #Creativity #Rome

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
-- Epicurus

#Attitude #Rome #Village

I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
-- Frances Mayes

#Country #Rome #Paris

Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?
-- Francine Rivers

#Mean #Men #Rome

No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation. Because the Christians had an absolute, universal standard by which to judge not only personal morals but the state, they were counted as enemies of totalitarian Rome and were thrown to the beasts.
-- Francis Schaeffer

#Christian #Rome #Judging

In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe in fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation. He answered: "In fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that in composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in fifteen seconds, while in improvisation you have fifteen seconds." His answer lasted exactly fifteen seconds.
-- Frederic Rzewski

#Music #Rome #Differences

It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.
-- Gabe Newell

#Teaching #Playing Games #Rome

Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.
-- Gary Shteyngart

#Fall #Reading #Rome

For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer

#Men #Rome

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
-- George Eliot

#Rome #World #Wanted

It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome...was a monogamic nation and the numerous evils attending that system early laid the foundation for that ruin which eventually overtook her.
-- George Q. Cannon

#Rome #Evil #Foundation

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.
-- George Stillman Hillard

#Art #Rome #Return

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.
-- Giambattista Valli

#Holiday #Rome #Balance

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.
-- Giambattista Valli

#Rome #Style #Bangs

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
-- Giotto di Bondone

#Travel #Echoes #Rome

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.
-- Giovanna Cau

#Country #Rome #Age

It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Country #Rome #Years

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.
-- Godfried Danneels

#Rome #Done #Problem