"St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings."

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Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.6, BoD – Books on Demand

Karl Philipp Moritz

#Mountain Quotes #Building Quotes #Enormous Quotes

“To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.”
“One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.”
“We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.”
“While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.”
“Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine.”
“Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.”
“In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?”
“Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.”

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