Quotes about rome
rome long wish
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. Richard Rodriguez
rome names england
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. William Cowper
rome amusement our-society
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters Saul Bellow
rome doe admire
Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome? Joseph Addison
rome me-alone
Rome alone can resist Rome. Pierre Corneille
rome church murder
Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question. Julius Streicher
rome internet watersheds
Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome Kanye West
rome sublime shifting
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic. Paolo Sorrentino
rome never-change
I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes. Owen Wilson
rome bored people
I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again."
rome espresso ducks
I like the Valentino store in Rome.Because in Rome when I'd be riding my bike, that store is right next to the Spanish Steps, and it gets so crowded there, so I could sometimes duck into the Valentino store and go up to the top floor and have a little espresso and just relax and take it easy.
rome months six
I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.
rome years church
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. John Foxe
rome one-day cannes
Rome was not built in one day. John Heywood
rome senators
Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.
rome rivers towns
Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay. Joachim du Bellay
rome ideas age
If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.' Hermann Broch
rome branches might
All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground. Henry James
rome careers century
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career. John Lothrop Motley
rome cities paris
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. C. Wright Mills
rome purpose genius
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed. Charles Caleb Colton
rome world today
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. Arthur Erickson
rome house half
For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism. Benjamin Tucker
rome london pavement
Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven. Bernardo Bertolucci
rome
Everything in Rome has its price. Juvenal
rome motto worst
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome. Anthony Trollope
rome fossils causes
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process only from its modern results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities. For many roads lead to almost any Rome. Stephen Jay Gould
rome airports boards
I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going. Cory Monteith
rome doe casts
I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you. Alec Baldwin
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 america long
Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought. David Starr Jordan
rome honor enemy
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." Ambrose Bierce
rome two church
Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.