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rome years broken
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
rome looks world
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
rome play burning
Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner! Red Buttons
rome religion ashes
And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm. Sam Harris
rome play ambitious
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater. Stacy Schiff
rome significant pantheon
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. Tadao Ando
rome cities shameless
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. Tacitus
rome empires great-empires
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
rome late rounds
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome. Robert Browning
cities proud
I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,' Earl Wilson
cities group officials people problems radical rational reasonable seeking solutions
This is not a radical group of hard-line, right-wing people making unrealistic demands. It's a reasonable group of officials that are seeking some rational solutions to immigration problems that our cities and our communities face. Ed Dumas
cities grandfather four
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily. Aravind Adiga
cities jerusalem addresses
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. Ben Nicholson
cities choices multiplicity
The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. Jane Jacobs
cities paris london
Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend. James Weldon Johnson
cities venice mind
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
cities wonderful manchester
Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times. Benjamin Disraeli
cities crowds biomass
I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me. Alan Garner
shameless carelessness
... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself. M. F. K. Fisher