Historical Place Visit Quotes & Sayings

Why not laugh again, and let your joy be my monument? — Stephanie Roberts

No, I've never been to Galicia, Galicia is the land of others — Jose Saramago

Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences. — Tim Fargo

It would be a mistake, however, to think that Connectors are the only people who matter in a social epidemic. Roger Horchow sent out a dozen faxes promoting his daughter's friend's new restaurant. But he didn't discover that restaurant. Someone else did and told him about it. At some point in the rise of Hush Puppies, the shoes were discovered by Connectors, who broadcast the return of Hush Puppies far and wide. but who told the Connectors about Hush Puppies? It's possible that Connectors learn about new information by an entirely random process, that because they know so many people they get access to new things wherever they pop up. If you look closely at social epidemics, however, it becomes clear that just as there are people we rely upon to connect us to other people, there are also people we rely upon to connect us with new information. There are people specialists, and there are information specialists. — Malcolm Gladwell

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. — Boris Johnson

One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Apparently, the Athena Parthenos had wanted them to visit a place with educational value, because she'd landed right next to a historical marker that read MASSACRE OF BUFORD, on a gravel layby at the intersection of Nowhere and Nothing. — Rick Riordan

If we want to DRAMATICALLY impact the world for the better than we need our hearts and minds to be DRAMATICALLY impacted by God's Word. — Jayce O'Neal

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I've gotten to do a lot of weird stuff, — January Jones

Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted. — Eric Ries

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms. — Giacomo Casanova

The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait. — Robert Crippen

Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not. — George Harrison

The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation. — Northrop Frye