Famous quotes containing the words von, place, date and/or birth:
“If we meet someone who owes us thanks, we right away remember that. But how often do we meet someone to whom we owe thanks without remembering that?”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“a place as kind as it is green,
the greenest place I’ve never seen.
Every name is a tune.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“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)
“TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.”
—Peggy Noonan (b. 1950)