Quotes About Monticello

#1. Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it may have ordained that the fall of the wicked shall be the rise of the good.
To J. Correa de Serra, Monticello, Apr. 19, 1814

Thomas Jefferson

#2. I never before knew the full value of trees ... What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. At Monticello he planned to return to farming and gardening with passionate zeal.

Jon Meacham

#4. I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].

Thomas Jefferson

#5. Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn't get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road.

Eric Massa

#6. At Monticello, the peach dominated.

Joanne L. Yeck

#7. A modern-day conservator of Monticello says that Woodmont Jefferson as an amateur architect rather than a professional was that he made things more complicated than they needed to be for any practical purpose.

Bill Bryson

#8. The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. Yself standing in front of Monticello wearing a veil and a wedding gown, hand in hand with a very muscular President Jefferson.

Anne Fortier

#10. It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing.

Wallace Stegner

#11. Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.

Kapil Dev

#12. Eric shone like the moon; he was pale and commanding, and there was a large empty space around him. He was alone. He held out his hand to me, and I took it, to a flare of dismay from the twoeys.

Charlaine Harris

#13. The way it watched him was unnerving - a definite intelligence all the more frightening because he couldn't know how deep it went.

Blake Crouch

#14. Walking along beside him that night, along that rutted road, through that empty world - what a sweet strength I felt, in him, and in myself, and all around us.

Marilynne Robinson

#15. As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators ... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget.

Ben Chandler

#16. The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

John Bolton

#17. So get on with life, with love, with service - fully realizing that God already has the perfect service he requires of us in his Son and now our neighbor needs our imperfect help.

Michael S. Horton

#18. In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

Chris Kattan