I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it… — Anonymous 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
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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
God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. — Ayn Rand 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
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact. — Osbert Lancaster Copy Share Image
My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces and kills kings. It stirs gentle men to rage and bids them take up arms. It… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the… — Jaye Davidson Copy Share Image
In the storm, like a prophet o’ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and… — Louis Bromfield Copy Share Image
The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In my work, it's simultaneously realities, instead of parallel. Simultaneous avoids the problem of alternate reality. In parallel reality, there's always a… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
