Quotes About The Tower Of London

#1. Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

James Keller

#2. In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London.

Peter Capaldi

#3. I'm one of those people, in any country I'm in, if somebody could just put me in a car or a bus, I'll look out the window and say, 'OK, there's the Tower of London, there's Buckingham Palace, there's Big Ben,' and if it all takes about five minutes, perfect. I've seen all of it and I can go home.

Gilbert Gottfried

#4. In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

Karen Maitland

#5. An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country.

Tracey Ullman

#6. I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.

Rick Wakeman

#7. For a fair maid of England hath told me
That the crows are departed the Tower.
So I'll seek for my bailiwick elsewhere,
Sniffing out some new dungheap of power.

Paul Christensen

#8. During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

Maajid Nawaz

#9. People are always going to find the ones with the weird like buzz-worthy thing about a movie and like run with it.

Kristen Stewart

#10. I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

Pamela Stephenson

#11. Tower of London, where they used to chop off your head if the king didn't like you.

Lauren Tarshis

#12. My goals are something I believe in, because I believe I'm going to make it.

Diem Brown

#13. In Britain I love spending time at the St. James's, the Jumeirah Carlton Tower on Cadogan Place, and the Mayfair Hotel. We've got some spectacular hotels tucked away in London, but because I live there, I don't get to spend as much time in them as I probably would like to.

Colin Salmon

#14. Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

Jimi Hendrix

#15. Always there have been six ravens at the Tower. If the ravens fly away, the kingdom will fall.

John Owen Theobald

#16. I'm just a big old nerd.

Claire Danes

#17. TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -
Wanted to know what the River knew,
Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,
For they were young, and the Thames was old
And this is the tale that River told:

Rudyard Kipling