Rome Quotes
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If a man comes up to me, I'm almost sure he's going to mention Rome, if it's a woman, it'll be 'Grey's Anatomy.'
— Kevin McKidd
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
Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
— Elizabeth Bowen
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most.It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
This is the tragic accent of the scene. — Wallace Stevens
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
I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.
— Alec Baldwin
I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.
— Hannibal
In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.
— George Carlin
When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.
— Vincent De Paul
Rome was not built in a day, but it was built everyday.
— Nana Awere Damoah
I am singing now while Rome burns. — Richard Siken
Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life
— Charleston Parker
...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.
— Procopius Of Caesarea
You nearly froze to death out there, you haven't been fed since the fall of Rome, and I'm evil.
— Seanan McGuire
I wanna kiss you in ParisI wanna hold your hand in Rome — Madonna Ciccone
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
— Robert Browning
Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.
— Henry Wotton
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
— Goldwin Smith
there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction
— Glenn Cooper
There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.
— Marcus Aurelius
Rome only exists because of slaves. That's how it functions. We are its muscles, its brains, and most of all its secrets.
— Lesley Livingston
Rome is everybody's memory ...
— Eleanor Clark
Oh what would Rome be without a plot?
— Pope Alexander VI
This year will take from methe hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins. — Eliza Griswold
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The UEFA Cup is now what we focus on. It's a huge game for us in Rome and it's all to play for.
— Mark Viduka
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
— Anthony Trollope
Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body
— Tony Horton
I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
— Naomi Campbell
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
— Franz Grillparzer
When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
— Flannery O'Connor
I live in Rome where people sit by fountains and kiss. The sound of water is the sound of love rushing between them.
— Simon Van Booy
Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.
— Jonathan Pryce
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
— John Henrik Clarke
When you go to Rome, do as Rome does. Rome will be a ugly customer to you, if you don't. I'm your Rome, you know.
— Charles Dickens
Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life
— Charleston Parker
Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.
— Frank Dane
The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings of ancient Rome.
— Sylvain Tesson
Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
— Walter Scott
Like an ocean on fire, the red-tiled rooftops of Rome spread out before him, glowing in the scarlet sunset.
— Dan Brown
Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.
— Margaret Mead
I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleondown here everybody thinks he's Christ. — F Scott Fitzgerald
We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
— Shane Claiborne
New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.
God always remains silent. — Dejan Stojanovic
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
— Edward Ball
Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.
— Mallory Jansen
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.
— Henry David Thoreau
I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
— Danger Mouse
When in Rome; burn it.
— Iain M. Banks
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
— Gaius Julius Caesar
I'd say it was a pleasure rowing with you, only it wasn't.
— Jennifer McKeithen
And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
— Will Rogers
Rome wasn't built in one day, just like our relationship didn't happen in the blink of an eye.
— Claudia Y. Burgoa
...loafing in the easy chair of one's body.
— Umberto Bartolomeo
Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.
— Augusto Pinochet
And when my own Mark AntonyAgainst young Caesar strove,
And Rome's whole world was set in arms,
The cause was,
all for love. — Robert Southey
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.
— Charles Lindbergh
The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.
— Gena Showalter
Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.
— Alice Meynell
I love Rome. I'm very happy there. I wasn't in New York.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
— Robert E. Howard
References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual
— Dan Brown
Any time a famous rich kid screws up, people want to know about it. Makes them feel good.
— Peter Leonard
In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy.
— Dorothy Dunnett
Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: 'Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome'.
— Fernando Pessoa
Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance
— Samuel Johnson
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
Reading about other people's delightful lives, however, only brought an unwelcome comparison.
— Judith Works
Rome wasn't built in a day, except in Lego Land
— Josh Stern
...some people here seem to have stepped through a time-warp -- old Romans being recycled with a mere change of costume.
— Umberto Bartolomeo
