Rome Quotes - page 3

The true key to the declension of the Roman empire - which is not to be found in all Gibbon's immense work - may be stated in two words: - the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian, and again in the reign of Phocas, the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast. View quote
Isaac Newton
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome. View quote
Jean Drapeau
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. View quote
Ambrose
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. View quote
Paolo Sorrentino
Wisdom's daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome. View quote
Rick Riordan
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. View quote
Rick Riordan
Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save. View quote
Rick Riordan
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. View quote
Stacy Schiff
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. (Tadao Ando)
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there. View quote
Frances Mayes
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile. View quote
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference. View quote
Graham Joyce
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world. View quote
Ali Smith
When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean. View quote
Catherine Zeta-Jones
I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum. View quote
Alan Titchmarsh
Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
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)
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. View quote
Bernie Taupin
I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome. View quote
Cecilia Bartoli
There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no. View quote
Connie Francis
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. View quote
Caroline Lawrence