Rome Quotes

Rome Quote of the day

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

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

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

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and 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.

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.

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

Wisdom's daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

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.

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

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.

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

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.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome

Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers, and strong reasons.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and neit'er was Syracuse.

Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body.

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

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

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."

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

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.

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

Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

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

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

Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.

I had rather be first in a village than second at 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.

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.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

Oh what would Rome be without a plot?

I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.