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Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city. -- Anatole Broyard
Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world. -- Erin Heatherton
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. -- Augustus
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. -- Giotto di Bondone
Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child. -- Paolo Sorrentino
Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament. -- Daniela Hantuchova
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference. -- Graham Joyce
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. -- Richard Meier
Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related. -- Mallory Jansen
Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome. -- Nelson DeMille
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. -- George Eliot
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. -- C. Wright Mills
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city. -- Goldwin Smith
All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal. -- Richard Le Gallienne
I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.' -- Robert De Niro
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do. -- Paolo Sorrentino
The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it. -- Claire Tomalin
Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time. -- Natalie Dormer
Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul! -- Lord Byron
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city -- Anatole Broyard
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city. -- Michel de Montaigne
I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble -- Julius Caesar
How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. -- Anthony Burgess
Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries. -- Fran Lebowitz
My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities. -- Marcus Aurelius
Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating. -- Lilian Whiting
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire. -- Richard J. Maybury
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity, -- Saint Augustine

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