Holland Quote by Edmondo De Amicis Download Open image ““In the seventeenth century, in less than forty years, twenty-six lakes were emptied.”” — Edmondo De Amicis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Holland Lake Lakes
“During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a practical knowledge of the construction of small lakes was part of the equipment of most countrymen. Many… — Elisabeth Beazley Copy Share Image
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day.… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
“Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“We made many trips to the lake after that, and had many a hair-breadth escape and blood-curdling adventure which will never be recorded in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The lake i had grown up on was protected by thousands of acres of private forests. It kept out the reality of a harsher… — Michael Gates Gill Copy Share Image
“I found a pristine lake, undisturbed by man. So, of course I had to clang a few pots and piss in the lake, to… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Part of the magic of the lake is that it isn’t home – it’s away, and away allows us to see the rhythms and dimensions of our lives more clearly. So it doesn’t necessarily work for us to live here at the lake, but I do want the way of living that I’ve tasted here to inform and ground how… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share
“Look at this site - it is beautiful and deep. When we come here, we get ourselves lost in its beauty and vastness. Years of sorrow and pain lies in the depth of this lake. You do not know what was here 40-50 years back. Probably, a ditch full of stagnant water and mud breeding mosquitoes. Now here we have… — Ravindra Shukla Copy Share
“The lake was a shield of beaten brass flung down in the valley under a full sun.” — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
“ Una casa senza libreria è una casa senza dignità, — ha qualcosa della locanda, — è come una città senza librai, — un… — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again... — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration. — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus. — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world… — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
My idol was always Romario. He was playing in Holland at the time and I loved him. His skills, technique, I loved him he… — Rafael van der Vaart Copy Share Image
Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment when officials… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
We address the problems of so many Dutch citizens that are afraid to go out in their neighbourhoods after 10pm, who are afraid to… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image