Top 26 Roman Army Quotes
#1. The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman army camp, and it was a total devastation.
Elaine Pagels
#2. Hey, we're like soldiers. Would you go to the Roman army and ask them if they thought they were going to win the battle? If I didn't think we could win, I wouldn't be here. I'd stay home and get fat.
Ken Simonton
#3. The stallion stared in my direction and bared his teeth. Now horses were giving me crap.
Ilona Andrews
#4. I thought he made me a different person altogether, but maybe I was always holding those pieces inside me, waiting for a chance to use them.
Brenna Yovanoff
#6. My position in the army is as sport instructor. This allows me generous time off for travel and competition. I also receive a monthly salary from the army.
Roman Sebrle
#8. In seventh grade ... I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
Beverly Cleary
#9. According to a new poll, 50 percent of Americans think the country is divided. The other 50 percent think it isn't.
Jay Leno
#10. American citizens should not lose their constitutional rights because they lack the money to pay for them.
Bernard B. Kerik
#11. I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.
Kim Weston
#12. Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.
Desmond Tutu
#13. As far as concerns the army, I don't know which people among us can claim to be more disciplined and closer to the order of the Romans than the Turks.
Francesco Sansovino
#14. The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions of the North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces of Europe and Africa.
Edward Gibbon
#15. September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion. September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth and colour. It glows like old amber.
Patience Strong
#16. General Patton, upon seeing the Roman ruins at Agrigento, remarked to a local expert, "Seventh Army didn't cause that destruction, did it, sir?" The man replied, "No sir, that happened in the last war." "What war was that?" "The Second Punic War."5
Robert M. Edsel
#17. All these haters mad because I'm so established.
Nicki Minaj
#18. The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.
James Risen
#19. Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I've never led an army,
I am a wanderer. I cradle
'The Odyssey' nights while the
moon is waning, as if it were
the sweet body of a woman.
Roman Payne
#21. War! It is purification, liberation, an enormous hope ... The victory of Germany will be a paradox, nay, a wonder: a victory of the soul over numbers ... The German soul is opposed to the pacifist ideal of civilization, for is not peace the element, of civil corruption?
Thomas Mann
#22. But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.
Lewis H. Lapham
#23. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. The only salvation for us is to stop being an incoherent, loose mob and to change into a strongly organized, disciplined army.
Roman Dmowski
#25. Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.
Richie Benaud
#26. It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.
Ruth Downie
