Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

  • Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

  • The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  • Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

  • Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

  • People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

  • Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

  • God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

  • By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

  • I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.