Rome Quotes

From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him.
Conrad Black

God, Him, Trying

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
Mary Douglas

History, Church, Constant

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

Football, Violence, Loved

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
Anatole Broyard

Service, City, Poem

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
Cecilia Bartoli

People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.
Giancarlo Esposito

Love, Dad, Mother

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
Goldwin Smith

Great, Government, Law

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.
Goldwin Smith

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Thought, Else, Earth

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

Wanted, Tell, Off

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.
Giambattista Valli

Balance, Holiday, Whenever

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
Rowan Williams

Rich, Between, Autumn

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
Hans Kung

Remember, Said, American

Ancient Rome was a violent place.
James Purefoy

Place, Violent, Ancient

People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.
Vincent Cassel

Time, Live, Between

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
John Lothrop Motley

Career, Full, Longer

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
David Brainerd

Nature, Future, Spiritual

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

Political, America, Nation

Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role, you don't have any friends, you're incredibly competitive and any actor who tells you different is lying.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Down, Different, Friends

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.
Richard Le Gallienne

Knows, Name, Seem

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
Isabella Rossellini

Mother, Father, Study

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.
Cecilia Bartoli

Time, Live, Difficult

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.
Nelson DeMille

Losing, Holy, City

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.
Goldwin Smith

Time, Great, Career

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
John Lothrop Motley

Time, Again, Once

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
Richard Meier

Time, Seen, Half

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
Graham Joyce

Place, Almost, City

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.
Saint Ambrose

Give, Whatever, Church

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.
Jonah Goldberg

Time, Political, Baseball

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.
Catherine Zeta-Jones

Thinking, Wonderful, Left

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