Rome Quotes

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

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

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.

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

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

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

Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

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

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.

Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

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

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

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

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

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.

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.

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

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

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