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Rome Quotes

Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid – with curving lines and organic shapes – and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

– Amanda Hearst

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

– Bernie Ecclestone

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

– Alexander Payne

They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I wasn’t on that particular job.

– Brian Clough

Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.

– A. James Clark

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

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

– Alec Baldwin

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

– Camille Paglia

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

– Augustus

The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that’s thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.

– Ed Stoppard

You look at passers-by in Rome and think, ‘Do they know what they have here?’ You can say the same about Philadelphia. Do people know what went on here?

– Frank McCourt

Hercules King of Rome and of Annemark, three times one surnamed de Gaulle will lead, Italy and the one of St. Mark to tremble, first monarch, renowned above all.

– Nostradamus

‘Rome’ was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons ’cause I would have loved to continue watching it.

– George R. R. Martin

I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of ‘A Flag for Sunrise’ to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.

– Madison Smartt Bell

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

– Edward Ball

I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

– Edmonia Lewis

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

– Caroline Lawrence

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

– Flannery O’Connor

Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public’s imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

– Gary Weiss

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

Rome had Senators too, that’s why it declined.

– Frank Dane

Cardinal Raymond Burke is a 66-year-old guy who lives in Rome, dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and talks like someone who majored in misogyny at some bogus, backwoods, Bible-banging tent school.

– Mike Barnicle

Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.

– Daniela Hantuchova

I’ve lived in other cities – Rome, Dublin, Mexico City – but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.

– Pete Hamill

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

– Mary Douglas

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.

– Frances Mayes

I lived in New York for five years; I’ve lived in Barcelona, Rome, and Paris at different times. When I was 18, I was dying to live in a city.

– Margherita Missoni

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

I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I’m attached by invisible strings.

– Darius Khondji

I walked across Tuscany from Siena to Rome, which was a lovely way to see the landscape. It was sunny but not too hot, and we made detours to look at treasures – churches, paintings, little hill villages. The first couple of days, you feel your knees are turning to jelly. But, at the end, you feel very limber. I hope I can always do it.

– Diana Quick

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