"Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Old Friends Quotes #Welcome Quotes

“Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.”

Source : "Eternal Greece". Book by Rex Warner, 1961.
“This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics.”
“The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.”

Source : Jamie McGuire (2012). “Beautiful Disaster”, p.237, Simon and Schuster
“I think I still have [commemorative coin ] somewhere. Why was this given to me? I think every child in the country must have received one [ from Queen's Silver Jubilee]. That's the last time that I recall something of an innocent, more-or-less unquestioning monarchist patriotism in Britain.”
“Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.”
“There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.”
“Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a historian that I work, although text criticism and literary criticism are very much a part of my interests.”
“A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.”

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