Quotes About Monmouth

#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. 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

#3. National Socialism adapts Fascism, Bolshevism, Americanism, works it all into Teutonic Romanticism.

Victor Klemperer

#4. Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

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

Brian Boyle

#6. I wanted to hold everything in place with my thin little arm and weak spirit. I wanted to do what I could with my unreliable body to try and deal with the many scary things that were going to start happening from now on. I wanted to try.

Banana Yoshimoto

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

Geoffrey Of Monmouth

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

Kyle MacLachlan

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

Harlan Ellison

#12. 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

#13. You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but it was just something to keep me busy.

Michelle Monaghan

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Mid-life crises, in Fran's ageing view, are a luxury compared with what she has seen of end-of-life crises.

Margaret Drabble

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Besides, I don't want to steal your thunder," I tease.

Kim Holden