Arrival Quotes

196 quotes by 179 authors

A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown… — Tom Robbins
A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to burn it to… — John Flanagan
Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return. — Dejan Stojanovic
Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. Sometimes my kisses go on those… — Pablo Neruda
No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force… — Lorrie Moore
But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge… — Lauren Oliver
Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their… — Jonathan Kozol
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is… — Alan Paton
He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem confused or amused… — Rick Yancey
I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's… — Rick Yancey
We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV. — Eric Schmidt
My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival.… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
For months, my parents had been trying to prepare me for the arrival of a real sibling. They had given me a doll to play… — Ezekiel Emanuel
The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years. — John Berger
The natural end of an era, as designers whose houses bear their names grow old and pass away, combined with the arrival of digital cameras… — Suzy Menkes
The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in the history of… — Martin Rees
As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming… — Jill Lepore
As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in… — Susan Shreve
Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as… — Gerd von Rundstedt
The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space… — John Dyer

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