Rome Quotes

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.'

Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.

Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!

I wanna kiss you in Paris I wanna hold your hand in Rome

My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities.

After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

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.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome, but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home. A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight, but you should have seen him on the comeback night.

I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart.

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

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.

Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.

Rome alone can resist Rome.

Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!

The Church of Rome, the Pope has always said, 'Seek peace.'

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.

I am singing now while Rome burns.

Just keep moving! we're almost there." "almost where?" Juno chuckled. "all roads lead there child. you should know that" "detention?" Percy asked. "Rome, child, the old woman said. "Rome

"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

Since the days of Greece and Rome the word 'citizen' was a title of honor. We have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

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.

I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. [...] No wonder I like the Italians!

Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.

We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.

Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

[William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and violent - and, I'm sure, really in love with our crazy Rome.

[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.