Rome Quotes - Page 18

• The UEFA Cup is now what we focus on. It's a huge game for us in Rome and it's all to play for.

  Mark Viduka

  Games, Play, Focus

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• Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

  Fanny Kemble

  Happiness, World, Seems

  Fanny Kemble (1891). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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• I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Revenge, Independence, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.57, David M Gross

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• I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand the impact that Pope John Paul II had on people.

  Chris Matthews

  Impact, Years, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Old St Petersburg remains a beautiful stage set but to the Russians it is not what Rome is to the Italians or Paris to the French. The decisions are made in the Kremlin. The city of Peter remains a museum, open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

  Joseph Wechsberg

  Beautiful, Museums, Pms

  Joseph Wechsberg (1977). “In Leningrad”, Doubleday Books

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• [William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and violent - and, I'm sure, really in love with our crazy Rome.

  Sophia Loren

  Crazy, Mean, Eye

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• An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that "the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong."

  Benjamin Franklin

  Differences, Church, England

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• Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Land

  "John Dominic Crossan's 'blasphemous' portrait of Jesus". Interview with John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2011.

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• When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.

  Immortal Technique

  Past, Echoes, Negative

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we see it now - because racism was created to justify slavery to build the capital for capitalism - and back in the day they respected talent over race. We had an African Pope in the late 5th century, we had an African Emperor of Rome, and early church Fathers were black.

  Immortal Technique

  Father, Race, Racism

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.

  Jeremy Bolt

  Thinking, Culture, Ancient

  Source: collider.com

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• Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Men, Break, Labor

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• Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.

  Erin Heatherton

  Favourite City, Cities, World

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• Be ever more convinced that your guardian angel is really present, that he is ever at your side. St. Frances of Rome always saw him standing before her, his arms clasped at his breast, his eyes uplifted to Heaven; but at the slightest failing, he would cover his face as if in shame, and at times, turn his back to her.

  John Bosco

  Eye, Angel, Your Side

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• I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

  Robert Graves

  Horse, Lasts, Goth

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• My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mean, Cities, Community

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.79, Modern Library

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• Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

  Sophia Loren

  Mother, Ambition, Doubt

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• I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

  Gore Vidal

  Europe, America, Library

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

  Henry James

  Branches, Might, Study

  Henry James (2016). “The Turn of the Screw”, p.71, First Avenue Editions

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• Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Smart, Men, Opponents

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• Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,
  Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars
  Makest to teem the many-voyaged main
  And fruitful lands- for all of living things
  Through thee alone are evermore conceived,
  Through thee are risen to visit the great sun-
  Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on,
  Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away,
  For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers,
  For thee waters of the unvexed deep
  Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky
  Glow with diffused radiance for thee!

  Lucretius

  Mother, Stars, Flower

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.181, Delphi Classics

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• The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy.

  Sigmund Freud

  Past, Cities, Mind

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'

  Hermann Broch

  Ideas, Age, Church

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

  Alec Baldwin

  Doe, Casts, Spells

  "Alec Baldwin: A 'Rock' Throughout The Ages". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. June 25, 2012.

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• Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

  Muhammad Ali

  Kissing, Men, Airports

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2012.

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