Places Quotes

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

The people of Dacca are an almost congenitally aggrieved race, rather like the French in Canada; their record, before and after independence, has been one of consistent complaint, always vocal and often violent.

O That I was where I would be, Then would I be where I am not. But where I am I must be, And where I would be I cannot.

In Southern Nevada, there is only a screen door between you and hell.

You are now landing in New Zealand. Everybody is requested to put their watches back ten years.

If an English butler and an English nanny sat down to design a country, they would come up with New Zealand.

The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don’t know what you’re doing, someone else does.

A part of us remains where ever we have been.

Ask where’s the North? At York tis on the Tweed; In Scotland at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.

In the Valley of the Kings, every sarcophagus is broken and the bones of the kings of Egypt are scattered. In one I picked up a skull. I mused over it a moment, and handed it to Paul, who moralized at large. ‘That man,’ said he, ‘once talked and laughed and sang and danced, and […]