(410 quotes found)
“We arrived at Penn Station, took the Amsterdam Avenue street car to the end of the line. There was a frame house my mother rented for four dollars a month, and all around it were apple orchards,”
Al Hirschfeld
“love to travel, But hate to arrive”
Albert Einstein
“We are expecting that, come tomorrow, they'll be arriving.”
Alan Autry
“We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.”
Marcel Proust
“Jamestown with her wild train she as freely frequented, as her fathers habitation; and during the time of two or three years, she next under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine and utter confusion; which if in those times, had once been dissolved, Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival to this day.”
John Smith
“The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Robert Orben
“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
Mark Twain
“My destiny has never been and never will be curbed. I am simply moving ahead in another vehicle.”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“How do you suppose a wizard arrive "precisely" when he means to? Obviously there's a meaning behind this sentence, how come no one notices the "When he means to" part?”
J C A Rowe
“We once again fought at the top level in the Champions League. We arrived 90 minutes from Paris. It happens, we will try again next year.”
Adriano Galliani