County Quote by John Aubrey Download Open image “The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.” — John Aubrey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare County Journey Oxford Silver Thames
If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like… — Mel Smith Copy Share Image
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph. — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city. — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down. — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches. — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people. — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue. — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
I grew up in Orange County, California, all over the beaches of San Clemente and that area. — Donavon Frankenreiter Copy Share Image
They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation,… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a rich and storied history in American cuisine. However,… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
I have chosen to seek election to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and not reelection to Congress. — Gloria Negrete McLeod Copy Share Image
I grew up in Orange County, without a team. I never affiliated myself with the Chargers, south of me, or the Raiders, north of… — Stephen Colletti Copy Share Image
Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable… — Nancy McKeon Copy Share Image