Top 31 Quotes About Rome Italy
#1. I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.
Muhammad Ali
#2. The noise of horns and radios and shouted insults was part of the soundtrack of the capital (Hard-boiled P.I. Casta, on Rome, Italy)
Tobias Jones
#3. Reading about other people's delightful lives, however, only brought an unwelcome comparison.
Judith Works
#4. She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.
Henry James
#5. What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy. [Addressing to a delegation of Italian socialists in Moscow after Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922]
Vladimir Lenin
#6. Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?
Ian St. John in THE POMPEII SCROLL
Jacqueline LaTourrette
#7. And although cars and motorcycles zipped around, all he saw was the girl coming toward him like a scene in a movie.
Peter Leonard
#8. Slavery was endemic in the classical world and huge numbers of men, women and children, the captives of Rome's ceaseless wars, flooded into Italy. Slaves provided a cheap workforce, contributing significantly to unemployment among free-born citizens.
Anthony Everitt
#9. Packing is important because a lot of times I have to go places where I have to be in four different climates in three weeks. For example, Bosnia, Ireland, Rome. Different parts of Italy. You have to pack and get it down to a science.
Sandra Cisneros
#10. You've got something that I don't have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
Olga Goa
#11. In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
Tadao Ando
#13. Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We wouldn't have Florence. We wouldn't have the marvel that is Venice.
Matteo Renzi
#14. They were no more than steaks served up to portly politicians who controlled the personnel departments of the TV stations. (Showgirls in Italy)
Tobias Jones
#15. Any time a famous rich kid screws up, people want to know about it. Makes them feel good.
Peter Leonard
#16. ...some people here seem to have stepped through a time-warp -- old Romans being recycled with a mere change of costume.
Umberto Bartolomeo
#17. If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.
(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)
Winston S. Churchill
#18. Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
Hanya Yanagihara
#19. I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.
Giovanna Cau
#20. My favourite setting is Italy, specifically Venice, because it is there that I met my husband, who is Venetian. I used it as the setting for Virtue and Vice, Enchantment in Venice, and Seduced by Innocence. Apart from Venice, my favourite city is Rome.
Lucy Gordon
#21. Hercules King of Rome and of Annemark, three times one surnamed de Gaulle will lead, Italy and the one of St. Mark to tremble, first monarch, renowned above all.
Nostradamus
#22. Although I think the word "pleasure" is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
Olga Goa
#23. She had passed her whole life as does everyone, rushing and dreaming in blind, deaf refusal of the miracle of each moment.
Umberto Bartolomeo
#24. The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#25. It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.
Glenn Hoddle
#26. I cannot perceive that you're still a girl. Ur kisses don't seem so innocent. They just drive me crazy!" #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
Olga Goa
#28. You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion:
Olga Goa
#29. In America, one must be something, but in Italy one can simply be.
Pietros Maneos
#30. ...living in Rome is either a one or a two, or a nine or ten. Not much in between. And some days it's both.
Judith Works
#31. I give pleasure to you. Do not interfere..." #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
Olga Goa