Quotes About Rome

Kushan coins bore Greek or Kharoshthi script along with images of their kings, Greek, Persian, and Hindu gods, and of the Buddha. Reliable coinage helped Kushan broker commercial exchanges between China, India, Persia, and, ultimately, Rome. Kushan became a great patron of Buddhism and promoted the dissemination of the faith through Central Asia, en route to East Asia.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it."

At Ravenna in Italy, where the buildings of Justinian's time have remained unaltered, one can study, better even than at Constantinople and Rome, the graceful Byzantine capitals and columns and brilliant mosaics, and the early Christian basilican type of architecture.

Na een paar maanden constateert hij [Goethe] dat het hem zwaar valt rekenschap af te leggen van zijn verblijf, want - zo noteert hij op 25 januari 1787 - 'zoals men merkt dat de zee steeds dieper wordt naarmate men haar verder opvaart, zo vergaat het ook mij bij het beschouwen van deze stad'. Zich Rome werkelijk toe-eigenen vergt een mensenleven - zo verzucht de auteur enkele maanden later - 'of zelfs het leven van vele mensen, die stap voor stap van elkaar leren.

Iedereen kent de uitdrukking 'Vedere Napoli e poi muori', oftewel 'Eerst Napels zien en dan sterven'. Met betrekking tot Rome zou ik een daaraan tegenovergesteld motto willen bepleiten, dat recht doet aan de even veelzijdige als vitale krachten die van deze stad uitgaan: 'Eerst Rome zien en dan leven.

If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse.

If Rome, was a city of vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse.

According to the Greek historian Laonicus Chalkokondylas, the fall of Constantinople was seen in Rome as revenge for the fall of Troy, and Kritoboulos has Sultan Mehmet taking the same view in his visit to Troy in 1462.

she moved out and into a rental home on the other side of town. It was owned by a lawyer named Errol McLeish, a thirty-nine-year-old bachelor she had known years earlier at Rome High School.

after Henry VIII's break with Rome and burning more than three hundred Protestants at the stake

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

Over most of the one thousand years of philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome, philosophy was assiduously studied in every generation by many ancient philosophers and their students as the best way to become good people and to live good human lives.

You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held

referring to conflicts between the various rulers who had emerged in western Britain since the break with Rome.

The largest and most important was St Peter's, the great basilica built by Constantine the Great

he decided that his only remaining option was to take his case to Rome.

And so Wilfrid set out once more for Rome. It was the third time he had made the 1,500-mile journey,

The dregs of Romulus.

Rome, fortunately natal 'neath my consulship!

Among the pictures in our "Children's House" in Rome we have hung a copy of Raphael's "Madonna della Seggiola", and this picture we have chosen as the emblem of the "Children's Houses". For

I was set free because the negotiations were successful, because there were people lobbying for my freedom, and because hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Rome for my freedom.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

Romulus and Remus There is a legend that the city of Rome was founded by twins called Romulus and Remus. They were abandoned when babies, and a she-wolf looked after and fed them. When they grew up, they founded the city at the spot where they themselves were discovered. This statue of the wolf and her babies can be seen on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. A caged female wolf also is kept here, in memory of the legend.

The might of Rome Roman power was based on a well-disciplined, well-equipped army. A Roman legion was composed of 60 centuries, and each century was made up of 100 men. (After 43 AD, a century was only 80 soldiers.) This statue shows how a soldier dressed. On the march, he carried equipment weighing 194 pounds (probably more than his own weight), including food rations for three days.