Roman Ruins Quotes

We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.

The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar.

I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.

Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.

For a Spaniard, Italy is the best place to live. You've got all the beauty, history, art, good food, and fashion.

When my three children were little, I took them to Rome. On our way to our destination, we went to see the Colosseum and returned to the car to find everything had been stolen. Trying to buy everything for a week, including clothing for three small, very tired children, was a low point in my life.

I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.

I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

Valencia is a pure Mediterranean city; it is a city like Naples or Palermo, like Rome a little bit. Walking in the old town has a little bit of the flavor of the old city of Rome.

The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity.

Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.