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Rome Quotes

Detroit’s industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

– P. J. O’Rourke

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

– Caterina Murino

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

– Cecilia Bartoli

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

– David Naughton

I think there are two cities in the world – New York and Rome.

– Frank McCourt

Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.

– Erin Heatherton

Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn’t have Rome. We wouldn’t have Florence. We wouldn’t have the marvel that is Venice.

– Matteo Renzi

I love Rome. I’m very happy there. I wasn’t in New York.

– Jhumpa Lahiri

If you set your story in Rome, Ireland or Sheboygan, for that matter, go there. If you’re broke, set it in the town where you live, or where you grew up.

– Lynn Flewelling

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

– John Lothrop Motley

Oddly enough, I’m not religious but I’m also very fond of St Peter’s in Rome. When I’m there, I always know there’s a good meal not far away.

– Jonathan Pryce

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

– Miguel de Cervantes

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

– John Foxe

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

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

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

– Livy

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

– John Bolton

There’s only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.

– Reza Aslan

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

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

Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

– Robert Browning

The American Republic was bound – is still bound – to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.

– Robert W. Welch, Jr.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

– Saint Ambrose

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

– Rowan Williams

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

– Robert De Niro

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.

– Ron Wyden

There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there’s nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.

– Reza Aslan

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire – different from Britain’s and Rome’s but an empire nonetheless.

– Robert D. Kaplan

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

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

– Will Rogers

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