Famous quotes containing the words von, place, date and/or birth:
“Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“She remembered home as a place where there were always too many children, a cross man and work piling up around a sick woman.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives—from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango—with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to- date scripts for actors on the tourists’ stage.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“Our birth is nothing but our death begun.”
—Edward Young (1683–1765)