“I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.” -Alec Baldwin
“Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.” -Robert De Nero
“Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn’t have Rome. We wouldn’t have Florence. We wouldn’t have the marvel that is Venice.” -Matteo Renzi, Prime Minister of Italy
“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.” -Anotole Broyard, American writer
