Famous quotes containing the word roman:
“Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (18741936)
“I remember when I was first assigned to jets. I said to the colonel, Colonel, I joined this mans air force to fly an airplane. But nobodys gonna hitch me to no Roman candle.”
—Kurt Neumann (19061958)
“The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
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