Rome Quotes - Page 25

• Edward Schillebeeckx is probably as fine a New Testament scholar as I've ever read. He's a Dutchman. And he was harassed so many times that it was just painful for him. He constantly had to go to Rome to explain his views.

  John Shelby Spong

  Views, Painful, Fine

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  Dan Brown

  Art, Pyramids, Paris

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• The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

  Frank Gehry

  Beautiful, Church, Littles

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.

  Scott McClanahan

  Kids, Way, Provinces

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?

  Francine Rivers

  Mean, Men, Rights

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• I am singing now while Rome burns.

  Richard Siken

  Singing

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• I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.

  Augusto De Luca

  Mother, Running, Rivers

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• It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

  Eleanor Clark

  Party, Giving, Worry

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any situation; the only things as dearly loved as a good noise are breakneck speed and eye-splitting lights, preferably neon - all expressions of well-being, like a huge belly-laugh.

  Eleanor Clark

  Girl, Eye, Expression

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and dine with you and all the gods in old Rome's Pantheon. It is a strange feeling--no hopefulness is in it, no despair. Content--that is it; and irresponsibility; but without licentious inclination.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Feelings, Wicked

  Herman Melville (2001). “Tales, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

  Mark Twain

  Thrill, Charm, Feels

  Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.267

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• Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.

  Lilian Whiting

  Dream, Cities, Venice

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• Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Art, Return, Indifference

  George Stillman Hillard (1853). “Six Months in Italy”, p.20

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• Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Art, Struggle, Men

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• Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Maps, Madness, Communism

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• 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!

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Time, Believe, Thinking

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• Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills.

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Fall, Heart, Night

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• Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

  David Starr Jordan

  America, Long, Spirit

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• Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise the improvements of social life.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Evil, Vices

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:”, p.100, Sheba Blake Publishing

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