Quotes About The Great Fire Of London

#1. When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been.

Norman Foster

#2. Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.

Henry B. Eyring

#3. Historically, Macbeth is one of the greatest kings Scotland ever had. He was on the throne for 19 years, and he simply has this dreadful reputation because Shakespeare manipulated history for the benefit of James I, who was paying him to write the play to blacken Macbeth's name.

David Hewson

#4. No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Thomas Hardy

#5. The key to life was rearranging the furniture.

Robert Ferro

#6. You shouldn't think what you're feeling

Death Cab For Cutie

#7. Love is a human religion in which another person is believed in. - Robert Seidenberg

Dorothy Tennov

#8. You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

Hermann Hesse

#9. I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.

St. Vincent

#10. There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us.

Steve Wozniak

#11. Witchcraft is fun. It offers us a chance to play, to act silly, to let the inner child come out. Out of foolishness and play, creativity is born.

Starhawk

#12. You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tip
out of our favor?"
She had no answer.

Kiersten White

#13. Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.

Judith Jamison

#14. Dreams remain dreams until they are brought to life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. Radio ... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people ... who fortunately can't reach me.

Milton Berle

#16. Down to the 23rd page of double dutch!

Sharon M. Draper