Famous quotes containing the words von, place, date and/or birth:
“The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Come to think of it, Pasadena’s as good a place to die as any.”
—Michael Tolkin, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Altman. Walter (Fred Ward)
“In the South, the war is what A.D. is elsewhere: they date from it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“O take fast hold; let that light be thy guide
In this small course which birth draws out to death,”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)