Quotes About Rome

Rome is particularly lethal this summer.

That's all Rome seemed to become: a map of grievances, fresh or half-healed. To patronize a shop, or cast a vote, or merely brush off a stranger who had fallen in the muck, was to risk pleasing one party and provoking another. There was only one man in the city who mattered now. In place of significance came victimhood. Every man and woman nurtured his or her private hurts, protecting and suckling and growing them. Instead of futures, Romans had plots for imminent revenge.

Without the spread of oriental cults and without the Germanic invasions, Hellenistic civilization would have initiated, with Rome as its starting-point, the Americanization of the world.

Marcus Aurelius had a marvellous sense of who, and where, he was: As the Emperor Antoninus, Rome is my city and my country; but as a man, I am a citizen of the world . . . Asia and Europe are mere corners of the globe, the Great Ocean a mere drop of water, Mount Athos is a grain of sand in the universe. The present instant of time is only a point compared to eternity. All things here are diminutive, subject to change and decay; yet all things proceed from . . . the one Intelligent Cause.

The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by another. But the high politics of the city of Rome little affected the lives of the masses or even of the provincial nobility. It was the wonderful army that provided the continuity and peace that this vast population enjoyed.

I hammered on the Poes' front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn't say whether the truth lay in the plain thing or in its fancy.

Diodor relateaza istoria unui faraon detronat care a locuit la Roma, intr-un apartament sordid de la un etaj situat undeva foarte sus, intr-o cladire oarecare.

Cedo le armi. L'idea di Roma come spazio franco e rifugio di banditi: ecco qualcosa di affine. C'è qualcosa di antico nell'immagine del fuggiasco che viaggia nella tempesta, vede una capanna, bussa e viene accolto. Il templum. Il sacro perimetro che ti salva. Il luogo rifugio che nelle lingue del Mediterraneo d'Oriente ha lo stesso nome della santità. Barak. La baracca. Che poi sta alla radice di Barka, la gens di Annibale, e di Barcellone. Il vino ha chiuso il cerchio.

Washington, D.C., with its wide streets, confounding roundabouts, marble statues, Doric columns, and domes, is supposed to feel like ancient Rome (that is, if the streets of ancient Rome were lined with homeless black people, bomb-sniffing dogs, tour buses, and cherry blossoms).

As for Rome, it did not bend one bit. When in Romania the liberal priest Andrea Agotha convened a "Congress" of some forty Catholic clergy in the town of Targu Mures on April 27, 1950 to discuss creating a "democratic" (pro-Communist Party) Church, Pope Pius XII immediately excommunicated them once he received the news in Rome.513

Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

How did he die?' 'He shot himself with an Italian pistol he'd bought in Rome just before he married her.

parents moved to Rome in order that their only daughter might receive a better education. They encouraged her to become a teacher, the only career open to women at the time. However, Montessori was a women's

Roman citizenship became universal when it was no longer a privilege but a burden

There were also domestic pressures against embracing Rome. Charlemagne already ruled his own realm, which itself stimulated imitation: the Polish król, Czech král and Russian korol, all meaning 'king', derive from 'Charles'.

There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,

After these things had happened, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia. “After I have been there,” he said, “I must see Rome as well.”

There we found some brothers who invited us to spend the week with them. And so we came to Rome.

When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.