1743 Quotes

#1. I could feel the hair rising on my forearms, as though with cold, and rubbed them uneasily. Two hundred years. From 1945 to 1743; yes, near enough. And women who traveled through the rocks. Was it always women? I wondered suddenly.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. I am convinced our own happiness requires that we should continue to mix with the world, and to keep pace with it as it goes. - Wise words from Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).

Thomas Jefferson

#3. Memoirs of An Unfortunate Young Nobleman, Returned from a Thirteen Years' Slavery in America, Where He was Sent by the Wicked Contrivances of His Cruel Uncle, etc. Part II Concludes with a Summary View of the Trial. 2 volumes. London: 1743.

Anonymous

#4. Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#5. You could be
the leaf that never falls from the tree
you could be
the sun that never leaves the sky
this might be
the happy ending without the ending
this might be
a reason to try

David Levithan

#6. I know that if things hadn't gone the way they did then I wouldn't be where I am now.

Taylor Swift

#7. I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are around my age. I'm hoping to find time to mentor, and to help emerging translators to a first contract through Tilted Axis.

Deborah Smith

#8. The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Alfred Marshall

#9. Books are fun, Nicholas, he says,
they're like
amusement parks
for readers.

Yeah, well, maybe
they would be fun
if I got to pick
the rides
sometimes, you answer

Kwame Alexander