Famous quotes containing the words von, place, date and/or birth:
“Legislators or revolutionaries who promise equality coupled with freedom are either phantasts or charlatans.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Often I am permitted to return to a meadow
as if it were a given property of the mind
that certain bounds hold against chaos,
that is a place of first permission,
everlasting omen of what is.”
—Robert Duncan (b. 1919)
“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)
“For birth was a disease and Christopher and I invented the cure.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)