Quotes About Norman Conquest

#1. I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county structures, though hollowed out in many ways, are a direct result of what happened in 1066.

Paul Kingsnorth

#2. Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.

Edward Jenks

#3. We tend to think of the Norman Conquest as the turning point in the history of England. But the Saxon Conquest was even more important, since it created both the reality and the idea of England itself.

David Starkey

#4. When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.

Kate Williams

#5. In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. About how it feels to be alone and the depth of the darkness surrounding me. Darkness as pitch black as the night of the new moon.

Haruki Murakami

#7. You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.

Mary Meeker

#8. When the clocks of midnight squander a generous time, I will go further than Ulysses' oarsmen to the realm of dreams, inaccessible to human nature. From that underwater region, I rescue fragments that I do not begin to understand.

Jorge Luis Borges

#9. ...anyone can make a desert and call it peace...

Kate Elliott

#10. Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

Norman Vincent Peale

#11. I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more.

Twiggy

#12. Dawn. Another day is given us, R'hllor be praised.

George R R Martin

#13. My drive into high tech doesn't involve a lot of people - just me and a very small team.

Raymond Kwok

#14. When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

Hilary Mantel

#15. The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice ... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

Norman Cousins

#16. I just don't think a lot of Republicans like it when single women have sex.

Bill Maher

#17. But do you really think it's wise under the circumstances? I mean, here we are on the run and everything, we must have the police of half the Galaxy after us by now, and we stop to pick up hitchhikers.

Douglas Adams

#18. Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.

Mike Tyson

#19. Cities at daybreak are no one's,
and have no names.
And I, too, have no name,
dawn, the stars growing pale,
the train picking up speed.

Adam Zagajewski

#20. Raoul felt suddenly impatient. 'Heart of a man, if the Lady Elfrida will trust herself to me I will have her in spite of every customary usage!'
'There spoke the Norman,' Edgar said softly. 'Marauding, grasping, marking his prey!

Georgette Heyer

#21. If life was like a body of water, she had asked that she be allowed to walk again in its shallows; instead she had been abruptly seized by strong currents and pushed into deep water.

Dorothy Gilman