Top Rome Quotes Collection

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Image of Suheir Hammad
The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.
- Suheir Hammad
Collection: Rome
Image of George Q. Cannon
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
Collection: Rome
Image of Flann O'Brien
Rome wasn't built in A.D.
- Flann O'Brien
Collection: Rome
Image of Alastair Reynolds
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
Collection: Rome
Image of Eleanor Clark
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
Collection: Rome
Image of Augustus
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
- Augustus
Collection: Rome
Image of Augustus
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
Collection: Rome
Image of John Foxe
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.
- John Foxe
Collection: Rome
Image of Caligula
Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
- Caligula
Collection: Rome
Image of Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended.
- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Collection: Rome
Image of David Starr Jordan
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
Collection: Rome
Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Collection: Rome
Image of Anne Catherine Emmerich
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
Collection: Rome
Image of Louis Simpson
All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!
- Louis Simpson
Collection: Rome
Image of Hermann Broch
If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'
- Hermann Broch
Collection: Rome
Image of Ned Rorem
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.
- Ned Rorem
Collection: Rome
Image of Tony Horton
Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body.
- Tony Horton
Collection: Rome
Image of Amedeo Modigliani
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
Collection: Rome
Image of Shemp Howard
Rome wasn't built in a day, and neit'er was Syracuse.
- Shemp Howard
Collection: Rome
Image of Claudius Claudianus
What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.
- Claudius Claudianus
Collection: Rome
Image of Malachi Martin
Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and still has his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome.
- Malachi Martin
Collection: Rome
Image of Owen Wilson
I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.
- Owen Wilson
Collection: Rome
Image of Pope Alexander VI
Oh what would Rome be without a plot?
- Pope Alexander VI
Collection: Rome
Image of Charles Chiniquy
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
Collection: Rome
Image of Thomas Nixon Carver
Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was necessary that Gaiseric should convince economists or philosophers that there were sound reasons why he should capture Rome. He and his followers wanted it, and they had the power to take it.
- Thomas Nixon Carver
Collection: Rome
Image of Joachim du Bellay
Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.
- Joachim du Bellay
Collection: Rome
Image of Les Wexner
Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.
- Les Wexner
Collection: Rome
Image of Lev L. Spiro
Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.
- Lev L. Spiro
Collection: Rome
Image of Kent Hovind
Here are the folks that are involved in this New World Order: The United Nations [....] the World Council of Churches [.....] the Council of Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers [.....] the International Monetary Fund [.....] the Club of Rome, the communists, the socialists, the National Education Association [.....] the NOW organisation, the ACLU, the Masonic Lodge.
- Kent Hovind
Collection: Rome
Image of Peter Akinola
Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome. Whether Canterbury is Anglican or not is immaterial. We are Anglicans. They are the Church of England.
- Peter Akinola
Collection: Rome
Image of Paul Einzig
Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world was operated with the aid of Roman gold coins which were accepted and admired everywhere.
- Paul Einzig
Collection: Rome
Image of Oliver DeMille
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
- Oliver DeMille
Collection: Rome
Image of Graciela Iturbide
If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to Sweden and you will have a different connection and it will be a very different experience.
- Graciela Iturbide
Collection: Rome
Image of Raven Grimassi
HOLLY TREE (Ilex aquifolium) is a symbol of good will and is associated with sun gods. In Rome the holly was sacred to Saturn and was employed in the rites of the Saturnalia, where it was a symbol of health and happiness. The holly is an evergreen and therefore is associated with the sun god.
- Raven Grimassi
Collection: Rome
Image of Stephen Nichols
If you want a symbol of Roman power and strength look no further than the Praetorian or Imperial Guard. We could take this one step further. It was this world of Roman power into which Christ came, in which the Apostles ministered, in which the New Testament authors wrote, and in which Christianity came into being. And to all of those things, Rome stood opposed, violently opposed.
- Stephen Nichols
Collection: Rome
Image of John Heywood
Rome was not built in one day.
- John Heywood
Collection: Rome
Image of Robert Underwood Johnson
In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.
- Robert Underwood Johnson
Collection: Rome
Image of Suetonius
As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome
- Suetonius
Collection: Rome
Image of Suetonius
I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
- Suetonius
Collection: Rome
Image of Jean Drapeau
Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.
- Jean Drapeau
Collection: Rome
Image of Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Collection: Rome
Image of Eddie Izzard
America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.
- Eddie Izzard
Collection: Rome
Image of Carlos Moya
It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well after that.
- Carlos Moya
Collection: Rome
Image of Matteo Salvini
If Rome gets to decide everything for the north and for the south, it's not a good and just thing.
- Matteo Salvini
Collection: Rome
Image of Frank Dane
Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.
- Frank Dane
Collection: Rome
Image of Benito Mussolini
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
- Benito Mussolini
Collection: Rome
Image of Ambrose Bierce
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
Collection: Rome
Image of Alexander Pope
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
Collection: Rome