Top 54 Arlington Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Arlington

#1. In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special.

Eileen Myles

#2. I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

Alan Hovhaness

#3. From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home.

Edward P. Jones

#4. from Arlington Street and onto the bridge. He had his hands in his coat pockets. "You Spenser?" he said. "Yes.

Robert B. Parker

#5. We want to add an American League pennant ... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

Tom Hicks

#6. Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the white markers of places like Arlington National Cemetery. And may God keep us ever grateful.

George W. Bush

#7. My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.

David Gross

#8. Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.

Satish Kumar

#9. Whenever Congress was in session, we were in Washington. So four months out of the year we were in Tennessee and the rest of the time in Arlington, which is where my mom grew up. Then, of course, in 1992 we moved into the vice president's house in D.C. I was 15 then.

Kristin Gore

#10. Don't come all the way across town. There's a Metro station right outside of Arlington. I'll meet you there, all right?

Connie Willis

#11. I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films.

Seth Shostak

#12. Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Buzz Aldrin

#13. I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.

Richard Branson

#14. As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important thing was that every one of those pardons Clinton sold for cash on his last day in office was signed by Bill Clinton personally.

Ann Coulter

#15. Alone, he saw the slanting waves roll in,
Each to its impotent annihilation
In a long wash of foam, until the sound
Become for him a warning and a torture,
Like a malign reproof reiterating
In vain its cold and only sound of doom.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#16. For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#17. He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#18. No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#19. The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass of inert shareholders, indistinguishable from rentiers, who employ salaried managers to run their concerns.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#20. Seizing the swift logic of a woman,
Curse God and die.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#21. I cannot find my way: there is no star
In all the shrouded heavens anywhere

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#22. I shall have more to say when I am dead.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#23. Life is the game that must be played

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#24. I mean you last as long as lies.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#25. And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#26. The stillness of October gold
Went out like beauty from a face.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#27. I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#28. Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#29. Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction,
something that can not be said.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#30. Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#31. Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#32. Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#33. To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#34. I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#35. Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#36. Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#37. She fears him, and will always ask
What fated her to choose him;
She meets in his engaging mask
All reasons to refuse him;
But what she meets and what she fears
Are less than are the downward years
Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs
Of age, were she to lose him.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#38. That's how we women deal with stuff. We spit it all out, kind of like a hairball, and then we clean up the mess and move on.

Lucy Arlington

#39. And there was no Camelot now -- now that no Queen was there, all white and gold, under an oaktree with another sunlight sifting itself in silence on her glory through the dark leaves above her where she sat, smiling at what she feared, and fearing least what most there was to fear.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#40. Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#41. For through it all
above, beyond it all
I know the far-sent message of the years,
I feel the coming glory of the Light.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#42. I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#43. Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong!
Tell me, O Lord
tell me, O Lord, how long
Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#44. The world is not a prison house, but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#45. Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#46. Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#47. It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme.It has to be understood as an awkward phase in a continuing process of historical development.

Edwin Arlington Robinson