Visiting Quotes - Page 5

• Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Self, Years, Rereading

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• Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.

  Alasdair Gray

  New York, Book, Artist

  Alasdair Gray, Joy Hendry (1991). “Chapman”

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• I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of a majestic beech: "Statues are hewn by fools like me: only God could make this tree." The Taoists looked at the inside of the tree. They saw God present, not as the super-sculptor, but as the primal force from which the tree drew its being and its specific form. Becoming aware of this divine origin was for them "great knowledge," to be distinguished from the "small knowledge" of our petty, every-day existence.

  John Wijngaards

  Artist, Tree, Saws

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• I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?

  Pico Iyer

  War, Men, Sri Lanka

  "Reflects On Thirty Years Traveling with Tibet’s Exiled Leader". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the world is not something that gives itself away. The heavens still keep their secrets. There is little gossip amongst the stars. But no one has forgotten the Big Bang yet. Since then, silence has reigned supreme, and every thing there is moving away. One can still come across a moon. Or a comet. Just don't expect friendly greetings. No visiting cards are printed in space.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Stars, Moving, Moon

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• We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Real, Heart, Giving

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• I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Gambling, Soul, Nuisance

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• I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Live In The Moment, Past Present Future, Want

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• I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting.

  Jonathan Ive

  Years, And Love, London

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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• I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

  Edward Ruscha

  Paris, Romance, London

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• I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

  Sarah Sutton

  School, Years, Ballet

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• I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

  Oprah Winfrey

  School, Kids, Sneakers

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• A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

  Quentin Blake

  School, Library, France

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• The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.

  Richard Carlile

  Earth, Fables, Christianity

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• The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

  Dorothy Day

  War, Nursing, Fire

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• The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who had received life-saving heart care operations. I couldn't help but think that in another life, one of these kids could be my own son. If it wasn't for baseball, I may have remained in the Dominican Republic and who knows where life would have taken me. It was then that I knew that I had to use the gift that I received, to play baseball, to do whatever I could to give back.

  David Ortiz

  Baseball, Children, Taken

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• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, San Francisco, Tourism

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• Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.

  Peter Lynch

  Jobs, Investing, Elements

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Meat, France, Eating

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• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Writing, Grandmother, Florida

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• If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.

  George Catlin

  America, Life Is, Continents

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• Visiting Anderson Silva. He's doing AMAZING! Leg is healing fast and will be walking without crutches in 30 days.

  Dana White

  Healing, Legs, Anderson Silva

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• Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

  Abraham Verghese

  Beautiful, Imagination, Alive

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• I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

  Chaske Spencer

  Native American, Thinking, People

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• I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

  Henri Matisse

  Country, Expression, Color

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