Rome Quotes - Page 9

• I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.

  Cory Monteith

  Airports, Boards, Days Off

  "Fun Fearless Males 2011: Cory Monteith". Interview with Korin Miller, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 7, 2011.

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• 'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hbo, Wish, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Livy

  Humble, Greatness, Overwhelmed

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Praefatio, section 4,

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• All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Travel, Names, Cities

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

  Roger Federer

  Italian, Good As It Gets, Sucker

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• Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Heart, Fire, Long Ago

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (1995). “The Forest House”, p.424, Penguin

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• When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.

  Mira Grant

  Cat, Feds, Emperor

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• One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food Culture, People, Challenges

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• Just keep moving! we're almost there." "almost where?" Juno chuckled. "all roads lead there child. you should know that" "detention?" Percy asked. "Rome, child, the old woman said. "Rome

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Moving, Should

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• Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus the OCD border god. He imagined holding hands with Annabeth at a cafe. Maybe when they were older, watching their own kid chase seagulls across the forum.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Hands, Borders

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• Wisdom's daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome.

  Rick Riordan

  Daughter, Athena, Mark

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• Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Dream, Sweet, Flower

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Three, Alliances, Firsts

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.94, Hamilton Books

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• Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Fall, Reading, Years

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel”, p.341, Random House

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• I pictured the two of them alone. Perhaps showering together, as Rome and I liked to do. My stomach clenched painfully, amusement forgotten. “Cody, will you take me to the nearest clinic? I need someone to dig the knife out of my back. Lexis might need it again. And the good doctor might want to give me a tetanus shot. I think she bled on me.” Stunned silence. I often had that effect.

  Gena Showalter

  Thinking, Doctors, Knives

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Twice as Hot”, p.84, Harlequin

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• As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Manhattan, Earth, Projects

  Alastair Reynolds (2004). “Redemption Ark”, p.42, Penguin

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• 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.

  Betty Smith

  Mean, Want, Might

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• Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortés'll lay Tenochtitlán to waste again, and later, Ewing will sail again, Adrian'll be blown to pieces again, you and I'll sleep under the Corsican stars again, I'll come to Bruges again, fall in and out of love with Eva again, you'll read this letter again, the sun'll grow cold again. Nietzsche's gramophone record. When it ends, the Old One plays it again, for an eternity of eternities.

  David Mitchell

  Stars, Fall, School

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.471, Random House

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

  Brian Clough

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Civilization, Liberty

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1976). “The coming breakpoint”, Not Avail

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• My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.

  Boris Johnson

  Running, Country, Strong

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• We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed the world, because he had remained with us. As we walked about the city, or traveled to different cities and countries, it was not the beautiful and interesting things around us that attracted us. Not even Rome's wonderful monuments and precious relics seemed so important. Rather, what gave a sense of continuity to our journeying through the world for Jesus, was His Eucharistic presence in the tabernacles we found wherever we went.

  Chiara Lubich

  Beautiful, Country, Jesus

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• I wanna kiss you in Paris
  I wanna hold your hand in Rome

  Madonna Ciccone

  Song, Kissing, Hands

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• Ask me that again next month, when you're all in Dhaka and I'm in Rome, watching Chelsea playing Lazio!

  Alec Stewart

  Regret, Next, Months

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• Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and
  brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?

  Polybius

  Mean, Years, Cities

  Polybius, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (2012). “The Histories of Polybius: Translated from the Text of F. Hultsch”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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