1665 London Quotes & Sayings

Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see. — Isaac Asimov

I don't look at family and what I do for a living as separate things. They're all kind of one thing, and this is part of their life just like it's part of mine. — Chris Stapleton

The key to success is to find a way to stand out
to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins. — Seth Godin

A whole language, according to UNESCO, disappears on average every two weeks. — Sebastian Smee

A community is like the ones who govern it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

rhyme jumped into Sienna's mind: Ring around the rosie. A pocketful of posies. Ashes, ashes. We all fall down. She used to recite the poem as a schoolgirl in England until she heard that it derived from the Great Plague of London in 1665. Allegedly, a ring around the rosie was a reference to a rose-colored pustule on the skin that developed a ring around it and indicated that one was infected. Sufferers would carry a pocketful of posies in an effort to mask the smell of their own decaying bodies as well as the stench of the city itself, where hundreds of plague victims dropped dead daily, their bodies then cremated. Ashes, ashes. We all fall down. Ring around the rosie. A pocketful of posies. Ashes, ashes. We all fall down. — Dan Brown

She used to recite the poem as a schoolgirl in England until she heard that it derived from the Great Plague of London in 1665. Allegedly, a ring around the rosie was a reference to a rose-colored pustule on the skin that developed a ring around it and indicated that one was infected. Sufferers would carry a pocketful of posies in an effort to mask the smell of their own decaying bodies as well as the stench of the city itself, where hundreds of plague victims dropped dead daily, their bodies then cremated. Ashes, ashes. We all fall down. — Dan Brown