Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rodriguez

If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.

William Cowper

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

Saul Bellow

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Saint Augustine

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity,

Yoweri Museveni

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.

Washington Irving

When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness.

William C. Bryant

Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice Is that thou utterest while all else is still-- The ancient voice that, centuries ago, Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream!

Walter Scott

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

Joseph Addison

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

John Horrigan

It can give a movement like this legs that it wouldn't have had 10 years ago, ... Today, protest is decentralized. You don't have to get 100,000 people marching on Washington. But you can get 10,000 people in 10 different cities rather quickly.

John Cooper

Having this service to Salt Lake City will open a new world of visitor and meeting markets for us, not only in Utah but for all the connecting cities Delta serves. In the past we focused largely north and south for visitors. Now we can look to the east.

Deval Patrick

Gun violence is on the rise in many of our cities today, and illegal gun trafficking from neighboring states is a big part of the problem. We need a coordinated effort to ensure partnership and cooperation with prosecution, community programs and crime prevention. We need leadership from the federal, state and local levels, as well as help from our neighboring states.

Maureen Forrester

It is so important that we have an opportunity to rebuild the cities with small businesses, with those transitional jobs for people who can come out of a corrections facility and get a job.

Charles Schumer

I'd like to know why the poverty number moved up more in New York than in other places, ... Even in other comparable cities the increase was less, and that's something every New Yorker should want to answer.

Renzo Piano

When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.

Ruben Blades

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

Truman Capote

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.

Toyo Ito

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

Rhodri Morgan

Tony Blair will be remembered as a great friend to Wales because it was his landslide election victory in 1997 that led to devolution.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

Woodrow Wilson

It must be a peace without victory

William Wordsworth

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

Samuel Smiles

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

Tullian Tchividjian

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

Vladimir Lenin

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

Ryan Seacrest

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

William Faulkner

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.