Quotes About Colosseum

#1. I should rather take my chances with the lions of Rome's ancient Colosseum than endure another tea chat with the likes of them. At least the lions are honest about their desire to eat you and make no effort to hide it.

Libba Bray

#2. Finally they reached the Colosseum, where a dozen guys in cheap gladiator costumes were scuffling with the police - plastic swords versus batons. Percy wasn't sure what that was about, but he and Annabeth decided to keep walking. Sometimes mortals were even stranger than monsters.

Rick Riordan

#3. It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

Red Smith

#4. US tourists caught carving names into Rome's Colosseum Two California women break away from tour group to scratch their initials into ancient amphitheatre, where defacing walls is strictly forbidden

Anonymous

#5. I remember seeing the Colosseum for the first time when I was a young boy. It left a lasting impression on me.

Diego Della Valle

#6. Hope. A strange word. In her past, it had been a light, wispy thing. Crushed as easily as a finger under a guard's boot. But now...now hope weighed so much, as if the Colosseum itself had collapsed on top of her. Mortar and suffering. Brick and time.

Ryan Graudin

#7. In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.

George Carlin

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

Bobby Dodd

#9. When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different; but only if we start doing things differently.

Thomas L. Friedman

#10. The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor.

Lesslie Newbigin

#11. Rome, yes, I say, thinking in quick succession of the Pantheon, the Colosseum and the cardinals screwing around while wondering whether women have souls or not, and of Nero, of course, who killed his closest family and let the city burn. I don't reckon he liked people, either.

Erlend Loe

#12. Belief is both prize and battlefield, within the mind and in the mind's mirror, the world. If we believe humanity is a ladder of tribes, a colosseum of confrontation, exploitation, and bestiality, such a humanity is surely brought into being

David Mitchell

#13. At the start of the trip, I took shots of the sights. The Colosseum. Belvedere Palace. Mozart Square. But I stopped. They never came out very well, and you could get postcards of these things.
But there are no postcards of this. Of life.

Gayle Forman

#14. for some disturbing reason, no one suggests that aliens may have assisted in building the Parthenon or Colosseum.)

Seth Shostak

#15. Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Alice James

#16. And there's a special place in shiva hell reserved for men in sandals, their cracked, hardened toenails, dark with fungus, proudly on display.

Jonathan Tropper

#17. So you students of the Way should immediately refrain from conceptual thought.

P'ei Hsiu

#18. Whether you studied sexology or not, nobody will teach you how to screw, nobody will point to your vagina and say, hey that's where you pee and bonk! And nobody will say, hey, your penis can ejaculate when you stroke or slide it into a woman's punani!

Michael Bassey Johnson

#19. Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

Julia Cameron

#20. So many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly. Mr.

Agatha Christie

#21. It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.

Steve Largent

#22. It is but it's also true. Long term relationships - the ones that matter - are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. And you are still thinking long term, right?

Nicholas Sparks

#23. You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'

Gary Busey

#24. It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.

Ray Kurzweil

#25. Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

Charles Saatchi

#26. Don't try to make any identity of yourself but search for your inner individuality and let it explore.

Nitin Yaduvanshi

#27. The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Richard Brautigan

#28. I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.

Richard Perle