And he knew he would not be travelling home. If he had to wear a donkey jacket and wait for fifty years, then he would wait. At last there was a place in the world where he had reason to be, a place that had meaning. For days, without realising it, h...
Gracchus: And after your glorious coup, what then? You take your five thousand and... leave? Maximus: Yes, I will leave. The soldiers will stay here for your protection, under the guidance of the Senate. Gracchus: So, after Rome's all yours, you just...
Now you can build Rome in a day with Cosmic Ordering.
When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
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.
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.
Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
New Rome will be destroyed By the attacks of new vandals. God always remains silent.
In Rome the statues, in Paris the paintings, and in Prague the buildings suggest that pleasure can be an education.
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.
When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.
I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.
Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respect as broadcasters.
