I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when…

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

— Willa Cather

But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on…

— Julie Walters

The new Bournville College is not only a magnificent building and a great landmark but a source of pride for Longbridge and its communities.…

— Waqar Azmi

I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it…

— Ian Mcewan

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which…

— John Berger

Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life…

— Anonymous

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you…

— Robert Baden-Powell

A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They…

— Herbert Muschamp

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in…

— Barry Eichengreen

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

— George W. Bush

Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool.…

— Twyla Tharp

With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in…

— Michael Pollan

Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that…

— Jeff Belanger