Roman Soldiers Sayings

#1. Do you think the Roman soldiers thought he was the Son of God or just some goofball who got nailed to the cross? In 2000 years, we've probably made somebody who is the equivalent of Elvis into God, so I see no reason why not to believe that in 2000 years Elvis will be God.

Geoffrey Fieger

#2. The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

John Lothrop Motley

#3. Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.

N. T. Wright

#4. The word "salary" comes from the salt that was part of Roman soldiers' pay or that they bought with a special allowance.

Anonymous

#5. The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. It didn't make any sense at all. Weatherwise or otherwise.

Arundhati Roy

#6. Rude cross lay flat upon the barren earth and on it was bound a man - half-naked, wild of aspect with his corded limbs, glaring eyes and shock of tangled hair. His executioners were Roman soldiers, and with heavy hammers they prepared to pin the victim's hands and feet to the wood with iron spikes.

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put [Jesus] on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer his death.

Billy Graham

#8. I am different - if you can find another like me, then I will buy you dinner!

Mario Balotelli

#9. Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

Philip Sidney

#10. Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

Martin Of Tours

#11. 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

#12. Happiness got me two ungrateful sons, a husband who hates me, and a painful reality living as the shunned wife. If you think this happiness you're clinging to will last, think again.

Suilan Lee

#13. You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#14. We wrote about whatever we wanted, and we ended up with eighteen million people watching us. That's the thing about television comedy, isn't it? It makes us all a part of something. That's what I love about it.

Nick Hornby

#15. The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Goldwin Smith

#16. Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

Michael J. Schmoker

#17. Hurtling back to town, in a red Porsche driven by a beautiful woman, with the song playing, I had the sense of standing on the brink of another world.

Graeme Simsion

#18. In harsh winter, remember the spring; this will give you hope and hope is power!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. Gut?"
"General Unified Theory." Kohler quipped. "The theory of everything.

Dan Brown

#20. Masters, it is good pastime to have a wife. When they have listened

Hilary Mantel

#21. But who, save the nerve-worn and sleepless, or thinkers standing with hands to the eyes on some crag above the multitude, see things thus in skeleton outline, bare of flesh?

Virginia Woolf