Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace. — Horace Copy Share Image
When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where… — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
O kindle the fire of happiness ! Therein I shall see The door of friendliness, The room of greatness And the palace… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The White Palace was pretty impressive. Very impressive, in fact. The day to day running of the set was everybody showed up… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We got an expression ride back to the palace of Hades. Nico sent word ahead, thanks to some ghost he summoned out… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it… — Phil Taylor Copy Share Image
Earth walks on Earth, Glittering in gold; Earth goes to Earth, Sooner than it wold; Earth builds on Earth, Palaces and towers;… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as… — Rose Fyleman Copy Share Image
Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal… — Ian Botham Copy Share Image
I embrace everybody, but you work everybody and each song at a time to who it is for. I believe that's how… — B.J. The Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat.,… — Horace Copy Share Image
As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza,… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
'Palaces for the People' reads more like a succession of case studies than a comprehensive account of what social infrastructure is, so… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and… — Robbie Kearns Copy Share Image
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image