Rome Is Burning Quotes

#1. Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable. But while that's happening, Rome is burning within the black community.

Jim Brown

#2. Instead of beseeching men to be reconciled to God, we find ministers wasting their time in giving Sunday lectures about all kinds of subjects. Rome is burning and Nero is playing his fiddle. Souls are perishing and minsters are amusing them.

Todd Friel

#3. He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

George Orwell

#4. Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.

Ernie Davis

#5. History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

R. Scott Bakker

#6. I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.

Adam McKay

#7. Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest spectacle? - the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? Why, it would merely say, 'Town burned down; no insurance; boy brast a window, fireman brake his neck!' Why, THAT ain't a picture!

Mark Twain

#8. The point is to test different hypotheses to determine which craving is driving your routine. Are

Anonymous

#9. There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

Benjamin Disraeli

#10. Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#11. We came to save the sacred writings. - Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE.

Joseph Shellim

#12. May your days be filled with minutes and your year be filled with days.

S.R. Johannes

#13. Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

Marianne Williamson

#14. I knew Rome was burning, but I had just enough water to scrub the floors, so I did what I could.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. First time takes forever, and then ever after it's over in a flash?

Neil Gaiman

#16. What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

Gary Zukav

#17. Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

John Wycliffe