It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In the papers this morning: 'Police closing in on Ian Holloway.' Sorry, it's 'Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.' — Alan Brazil 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
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. — Horace 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
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks, — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace… — John Milton 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
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
'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
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
I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every… — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold… — Oriana Fallaci 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
When I was sworn in as Mayor of Nashville back in 1991, I have to admit to you that I felt for… — Phil Bredesen Copy Share Image
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I could not but smile to think in what out-of-the-way corners genius produces her bantlings! And the Muses, those capricious dames, who,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of… — John Bunyan 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
Tess had said that the river was liable to wash the palace and the city and the whole kingdom off the rocks,… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James 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
We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social… — William Booth Copy Share Image
To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing. Creature comforts, and heart and soul comforts also;… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my… — Christopher Love Copy Share Image
Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights. — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
