Stonehenge Quotes
- It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast… — Henry James
- Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. — Stephen Gardiner
- The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it. — Maureen Howard
- Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires. — Jacquetta Hawkes
- Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back. — Alison Jolly
- That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center. — Cyril Connolly
- I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi… — Ville Valo
- George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us… — John le Carre
- I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way,… — Antony Gormley
- Following the 2008 season nothing further was attempted until after the First World War the Stonehenge had by its time to come into public ownership… — Brandon McCaw