Rendezvous Quotes

• This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Presidential, This Generation

  Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

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• If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Meetings, Fewer

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• I have a rendezvous with life.

  Countee Cullen

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.22, Library of America

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• When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!

  Wally Schirra

  Girl, Men, Looks

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• You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Destiny, Men

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Sea, History

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• I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Patriotic, Destiny

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.765, Best Books on

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• There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

  Aime Cesaire

  Equality, Victory, Rooms

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• There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Events, This Generation

  Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

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• You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Children, Patriotic

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, NewsMax Media, Inc.

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• But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

  Alan Seeger

  Spring, Years, Towns

  "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" l. 20 (1916)

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• When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

  Ken Kesey

  Wow, Scene, Pow

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• A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and - above all - responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

  Ronald Reagan

  Destiny, Self, Cities

  Ronald Reagan’s Announcement for Presidential Candidacy, www.reaganlibrary.gov. November 13, 1979.

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• Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, Soul, Your Soul

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• It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

  Walter Scott

  Book, Stories, Privilege

  Sir Walter Scott (1831). “Waverley Novels: Kenilworth”, p.3

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• We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Rivers, Environmental, Moments

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• If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two for the road, we'll travel through the years, collecting precious memories, selecting souvenirs and living life the way we please.

  Henry Mancini

  Travel, Memories, Live Life

  Song: Two for the Road, 2004

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• Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

  George Henry Lewes

  Memorable, Men, Water

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Children, Opportunity, Reality

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• She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?

  Margaret Atwood

  Cutting, Thinking, Doors

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.408, Anchor

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• To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  This Generation, Generations, Given

  Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

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• Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

  Kevin A. Ford

  Progress, Unusual, Astronaut

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Morning, Piano

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• In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.

  Robert Underwood Johnson

  Rome, Flames, Faithful

  Robert Underwood Johnson (1908). “Poems”

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