Top 772 Rome Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

Everything in Rome has its price.

Oh what would Rome be without a plot?

Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.

Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn." "But you're still a Brooklynite." "I wouldn't want that to get around, Annie." "You don't mean that, Carl." "Ah, we might as well call them beanies, Annie." "Why?" "When in Rome do as the Romans do." "Do they call them beanies in Rome?" she asked artlessly. "This is the silliest conversation.

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

When you are at Rome, do as you see.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

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

It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.

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

You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and neit'er was Syracuse.

Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.

Rome wasn't built in A.D.

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

Rome is an astonishment!

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.

Rome is everybody's memory.

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.

When in Rome, live in the Roman way.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

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

Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body.

No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote.

Rome rankles. It will always. I missed a certain medal.

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

Home is not fixed - the feeling of home changes as you change. There are places that used to feel like home that don't feel like home anymore. Like, I would go back to Rome to see my parents, and I would feel at home then. But if my parents were not in Rome, which is my city where I was born, I would not feel at home. It's connected to people. It's connected to a person I love.

Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!

Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit of humility and respect for the facts and for history. What as the meaning of ROME, OPEN CITY? We were emerging from the tragedy of the war. We had all taken part in it, for we were all its victims. I sought only to picture the essence of things. I had absolutely no interest in telling a romanticized tale along the usual lives of film drama. The actual facts were each more dramatic than any screen cliche.

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

I am singing now while Rome burns.

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

Rome was not built in one day.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.

The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to continue the work assigned to Greece and Rome, but to accomplish a greater work than was assigned to either. In art, it will prove false to its mission if it do not rival Greece; and in science and philosophy, if it do not surpass it. In the State, in law, in jurisprudence, it must continue and surpass Rome.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

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