Rome Quotes - Page 12

• The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Fire, Flames

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano.

  Michael Hersch

  Artist, Piano, Remarkable

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• HOLLY TREE (Ilex aquifolium) is a symbol of good will and is associated with sun gods. In Rome the holly was sacred to Saturn and was employed in the rites of the Saturnalia, where it was a symbol of health and happiness. The holly is an evergreen and therefore is associated with the sun god.

  Raven Grimassi

  Tree, Hollies, Sacred

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• [In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.

  George Lucas

  Kings, Government, Giving

  "'Sith' Invites Bush Comparisons" by Ellen Crean, www.cbsnews.com. May 16, 2005.

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• After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.

  Margaret Fuller

  Beautiful, Real, Giving

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• One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Progress, Church

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.197, Psychology Press

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

  Eddie Izzard

  America, Empires, Remember

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• Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure.

  Will Durant

  Christian, Perspective, Rose

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• English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite fresh and, in this sense, wild strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome. Her wildness is a greenwood, her wild man a Robin Hood. There is plenty of genial love of Nature, but not so much of Nature herself. Her chronicles inform us when her wild animals, but not the wild man in her, became extinct.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Men, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays: Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…”, p.167, e-artnow

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• It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well after that.

  Carlos Moya

  Years, Play, Week

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• Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.

  C. Sommerville

  Children, Educational, Years

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• I was set free because the negotiations were successful, because there were people lobbying for my freedom, and because hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Rome for my freedom.

  Giuliana Sgrena

  Successful, People, Lobbying

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience - a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth.

  Lord Acton

  Christian, Philosophy, Reflection

  "The History of Freedom in Christianity". Lord Acton's Address Delivered to the Members of the Bridgnorth Institute, acton.org. May 28, 1877.

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• I seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing. Some of the major international cities I've visited, like Madrid, Rome and London, have a lot of similarities and "New York" elements while ... having their own flavor.

  Bobby Flay

  New York, Cities, London

  "New York restaurants are a world of good". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. May 31, 2011.

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• The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them.

  Ibn Warraq

  Roots, Mind, Enlightenment

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.48, Encounter Books

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• History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Drama, Book, Night

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “A Time In Rome”, p.10, Random House

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• To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Wine, Air, Yellow

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “A Time In Rome”, p.58, Random House

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• On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

  Daniel Webster

  Morning, Military, Power

  Speech in the Senate on the President's Protest, 7 May 1834

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Travel, Wall, Real

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• Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

  Joseph Addison

  Doe, Admire

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.48

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• Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Eagles, Flew

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• New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Home, Thinking

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• Rome is an astonishment!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Astonishment

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.234, Library of Alexandria

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

  Margaret Mead

  Theory, Creationism, Built

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• Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Curiosity, Courtesy, Form

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