Famous quotes containing the words von, place, date and/or birth:
“Talent is formed in solitude,
Character in the bustle of the world.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“In the South, the war is what A.D. is elsewhere: they date from it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“At birth man is offered only one choice—the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.”
—Jean-Pierre Melville (1917–1973)