Prado Quotes

#1. The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

Carolina Herrera

#2. Each year, tens of millions of museumgoers walk through the entrance of the Getty, or the Metropolitan or the Prado or the Hermitage, and never consider the possibility of having to arbitrate for themselves the authenticity of what they have come to see.

Peter Landesman

#3. I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city.

Kate Klise

#4. If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.

Joaquin Sorolla

#5. I was basically the Holden Caulfield of adult dating.

Camille Perri

#6. The Spirit never just flows in us; he always flows through us so that others might flourish as well.

John Ortberg

#7. Success is living life with all of its songs and melodies, triumphs and tragedies.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Scheming is mediocre.

Vipin Behari Goyal

#9. You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

Catherynne M Valente

#10. I really think people understand that in New York City we have high taxes.

John Liu

#11. When I reread it as a teenager, Fahrenheit 451 had become a book about independence, about thinking for yourself. It was about treasuring books and the dissent inside the covers of books. It was about how we as humans begin by burning books and end by burning people.

Ray Bradbury

#12. Suffering belongs to no language.

Adelia Prado

#13. Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

George C. Wallace

#14. Anywhere we enslave fear, love will run free.

Charles F. Glassman

#15. The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

William Temple

#16. Destiny doesn't exist. It's God we need, and fast.

Adelia Prado

#17. Law of Conservation of Reality; this demanded that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used.

Terry Pratchett

#18. I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

Adelia Prado

#19. There are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example, in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation of outer space; there may be some instances in which we are ahead of you
in color television, for instance.

Richard M. Nixon

#20. For the most part, for me and my friends, there's always an emotional attachment that clouds women's judgment.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#21. And now the fight continues for all orphans and children who need families who will love and care for them - until they too can all go home.

Kim De Blecourt