Colosseum Quotes

• When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different; but only if we start doing things differently.

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  Thomas Friedman

  Sports   Heart   Fate  

  Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.373, Picador

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• It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

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  Red Smith

  Sports   Baseball   Culture  

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• In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.

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  George Carlin

  Rome   Special   Coliseum  

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• Only 7 percent of NFL fans have ever been inside an NFL stadium. Seven... have ever been inside. So the NFL is certainly about the Colosseum of Rome. It can't be a studio game.

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  Jerry Jones

  Nfl   Rome   Games  

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

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  Bobby Dodd

  Christian   Lsu   Rome  

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• You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch." "That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane..." Even after the plane took off, they kept debating security perimeters and protocols. I'm pretty sure they argued for forty-five minutes about where the best place for cappuccino was near the Colosseum.

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  Ally Carter

  Airplane   Sleep   Watches  

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

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  Lord Byron

  Fall   Rome   World  

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 145

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• The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor.

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  Lesslie Newbigin

  Jesus   Names   Victory  

  Lesslie Newbigin (1989). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society”, p.275, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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