Monmouth's Quotes

#1. Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.

Peter Ackroyd

#2. There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill, near Monmouth, which was owned by my grandparents. They lived in the big house, but my dad had five brothers and a sister, and they all lived in various houses scattered on the hill.

Saul David

#3. I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn't have girls, and they played rugby instead of football.

Saul David

#4. I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewellery on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewellery. Every time I get a part in an English movie, I buy myself a piece of jewellery from there.

Caterina Murino

#5. I've been lucky to always have a healthy relationship with food. I also love to be consistent with meditation and make sure that I am supplying my body, mind, and soul with everything it needs to function.

Cara Santana

#6. There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.

William Shakespeare

#7. When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. Tactics could never genuinely move a person.

Hideo Yokoyama

#9. Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

Henry Adams

#10. One of the first bills I helped passed was the Shore Protection Fund, which provides a stable source of funding for shore protection, something very important for Monmouth County and the entire Jersey Shore.

Joseph M. Kyrillos

#11. Tom was not good at math. He'd started to lose his way in middle school, as so many American kids did. It had happened gradually; first he hadn't understood one lesson, and then another and another.

Amanda Ripley

#12. When fatigue finally forced him to pause, he ordered the men who were left to have their hearts torn out and their carcasses burned

Geoffrey Of Monmouth

#13. The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.

Kyle MacLachlan

#14. Britain, the best of islands, is situated in the Western Ocean, between France and Ireland.

Geoffrey Of Monmouth

#15. They were all around him, half a dozen of them, white-faced children with dark eyes, boys and girls together. And in their hands, the daggers.

George R R Martin

#16. The Monmouth-Ocean area is ... always in the best-areas-to-live lists.

Brian Boyle

#17. I've dreamt him a box of EpiPens. I dream cures for stings all the time. I carry one. I put them in the Pig. I have them all over Monmouth."
"Do they work?"
"I don't know. And there's no way to find out before it actually happens. There won't be a rematch.

Maggie Stiefvater