Quotes About Rome

They loved Israel, but they seem to have loved security more. They made their public peace with Rome and went on about the business of living.

I was struck by the ancient, pagan feel of the place. New Orleans doesn't feel like any other American city I've been to. It has an atmosphere like Rome or Istanbul, a sense of the veil being very thin between this world and the world of the fictional and the dead. It is an eerie, haunted, and beautiful place - as any port should be.

Next year when I take my holiday I shall certainly fly——" "But not to Rome," said Roger hastily. "No, not to Rome," agreed Aunt Beatrice. "I have a feeling I should like to visit Copenhagen. It is a very beautiful city I am told." Roger could not help smiling. He wondered whether he should begin to study Danish—just in case.

I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.

I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.

I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

The apostle Paul had much to say about the immorality of individual church members, but little to say about the immorality of pagan Rome. He did not rail against the abuses in Rome—slavery, idolatry, gladiator games, political oppression, greed—even though such abuses surely offended Christians of that day every bit as much as our deteriorating society offends Christians today.

Jesus was not crucified for being a good citizen, for being just a little nicer than everyone else. The powers of his day correctly saw him and his followers as subversives because they took orders from a higher power than Rome or Jerusalem. What would a subversive church look like in the modern United States?

Edward Gibbon said that in ancient Rome all religions were to the people equally true, to the philosophers equally false, and to the government equally useful.

Nothing like Rome, boy. Gets us all the first time." "And every time after.

The success of 'Rome' was in making the history accessible and giving viewers everyman characters through which they can connect to historical figures. It stops the story from being too remote.

Arcadia' was started and finished at the Medici villa in Rome.

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

Didn't he claim Rome was conspiring to take over North America and had sent the Jesuits to kill Lincoln?" asked Émile.

hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.

Audiences must be educated, too -- in a very gentle way, of course, but the relation of the audience to music is very mobile, very different. Certainly a Chicago audience can react differently from a Paris audience or from a Rome audience.

stirred to action, and he was minded to make amends to the memory of her who had done so much for him. At his instigation Isabeau carried her daughter's appeal to Rome.

I close my eyes, rub my thumb against the bridge of my nose to ward off the headache. Well, Rome wasn't built in a day.

For Rome is sometimes cold and rainy in the winter in spite of all the naked statues.

I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.

The poorest Englishman who understands his Bible knows more about religion than the wisest philosophers of Greece and Rome.

Julius Caesar BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS

CHAPTER I. MARIUS AND SYLLA.

The image of the ancient fasces (bundled birch rods and axes) was already old when Rome adopted it as a symbol of state.