Famous quotes containing the words von, place, date and/or birth:
“Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)
“In the South, the war is what A.D. is elsewhere: they date from it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)