Quotes About Visits

#1. I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

Louis Freeh

#2. For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.

Marcel Proust

#3. Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers ... but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

Erica Jong

#4. Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits strange new lands one must be aware of their customs.

Chris Murray

#5. The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest.

Alan Bennett

#6. I visited many places,
Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always returned to myself.

Dejan Stojanovic

#7. Somehow, too, I remembered Chichikov's round of weird visits in Gogol's Dead Souls.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. Look for your brushes with the divine. Be receptive to them. When heaven knocks, open the door. Value these visits. Remember them. Expect more of them.

Victoria Moran

#9. One day Satan himself visits, along with his great-grandmother - who is, not surprisingly, a total fucking bitch.

David Rakoff

#10. On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," was probably more in force in America-that holy of holies of capitalism-than in any other country in the world.

Felix Houphouet-Boigny

#11. Out of sight is out of mind. The closer your hives are to your residence the better. Beginners need colonies nearby so they can visit them often. Casual visits are important even if you don't open the hives. You can learn much simply by observing the entrance.

Richard E. Bonney

#12. January 21: Marilyn returns to New York and visits Lee Strasberg.

Carl Rollyson

#13. Superior people never make long visits.

Marianne Moore

#14. Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.

Robert Blair

#15. The summit of Mauna Kea should never have been developed as it is not safe for humans up there. I am now locked into an endless loop of doctors visits for what appears to be classic very high altitude heart, lung & brain damage because I was unfortunate enough to have worked there.

Steven Magee

#16. Everyone in this house
has gray hair, walks with a cane,
visits the graveyard

Matsuo Basho

#17. In the last eight weeks I had experienced two of the three best times of my adult life, assuming all visits to the Museum of Natural History were treated as one event. They had both been with Rosie. Was there a correlation? It was critical to find out.

Graeme Simsion

#18. So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

Mark Twain

#19. On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

John Ratzenberger

#20. Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service.

Susan Collins

#21. There was a time when emigration from Cuba was a definitive separation. There were no visits. In the '80s, '90s, it was incredibly difficult. I'm not the only one interested in this as a filmmaker - other Cuban filmmakers have dealt with it, too, because it's such a part of our reality.

Fernando Perez

#22. No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.

Richard J. Daley

#23. I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#24. Or what if he's weeping to himself in a lonely apartment somewhere, where his family never visits him because Grandpa Penumbra is weird and smells like books?

Robin Sloan

#25. When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.

Tom Brokaw

#26. The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts, memories, experiences, and odors. We adapt to one another to produce the human condition.

Josh Hanagarne

#27. Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. During our visits, he consumed an embarrassingly varied assortment of cheap beer and wine, vacillating between fury and melancholy as one might imagine Richard Nixon to be doing not far away. Sometimes he choked on his emotions so badly I feared I would have to perform the Heimlich maneuver on him.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#29. We are a city of charming little parkettes, she thinks grimly, that nobody ever visits. Named for local heroes that nobody remembers.

K. D. Miller

#30. With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.

Ryokan Taigu

#31. Cold is not without its risks to runners, of course, especially ones who don't head south when winter visits their neighborhood. Even pooh-pooh-ers of frozen lungs and lovers of dark jogs over permafrost have been known to be careful about certain hazards.

Don Kardong

#32. Beware; satan visits you by the noises of negatively minded people. Hear, but don't act on it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#33. The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

Thomas Paine

#34. 10:31pm
Janie drives home slowly, windows rolled down, hand ready on the parking brake. She takes Waverly. Past Cabel's house.
Nothing.
She falls into bed when she gets home.
There are no notes, no phone calls, no visits. Not that she was hoping for anything of course. That bastard.

Lisa McMann

#35. If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.

Thomas Friedman

#36. My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

George Shearing

#37. To pay no attention to health of body but only that of soul. To plan day on arising and evening examination of conscience. More spiritual reading ... To waste no time. More conscientious about letters, visits, about these records. More charity.

Dorothy Day

#38. Our visits to the United States have brought huge benefits by helping attract foreign direct investment on a scale not previously seen in the north of Ireland.

Martin McGuinness

#39. That's what I'd call him if he was my dog. Jacket-humper. Kinda had a ring to it. Although it seemed a little long for vet visits and intros to lady dogs.

Jennifer Rardin

#40. The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.

Max Lucado

#41. Of course, one cannot get to know a country like the United States in short visits.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#42. Mrs. Spencer distrusted letters on principle, because they always seemed to want to entangle her in so many small, disagreeable obligations--visits, or news of old friends she had conveniently forgotten, or family responsibilities that always had to be met quickly and without enjoyment.

Shirley Jackson

#43. When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.

Roman Polanski

#44. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Jane Austen

#45. the Isle of Wight, with occasional visits to

Mary S. Lovell

#46. Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.

John Burnside

#47. Loose diagnosis is causing a national drug overdose of medication. Six percent of our people are addicted to prescription drugs, and there are now more emergency room visits and deaths due to legal prescription drugs than to illegal street drugs.6

Allen Frances

#48. My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros.

Mark Sanchez

#49. All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Samuel Johnson

#50. We think that cutting routine office visits to twenty minutes, fifteen minutes, even ten minutes will save money when in fact, with less time for doctors to examine and less time to think, we are incurring far greater costs through excessive testing and needless treatment.

Martin J. Blaser

#51. Practice loving kindness wherever you may go.

Heather Wolf

#52. The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail.

Fred Thompson

#53. This was the nurse Rehv hoped he would get each time he came in.
This was the one who made these visits even partially bearable.
This was his Ehlena.

-Rehv's thoughts

J.R. Ward

#54. a family will visit constantly, daily or even twice a day. Then maybe every other day. Then just weekends. After months or years, the visits taper off, until it's just, say, birthdays and Christmas. Eventually, most families move away, as far as they can get.

Paul Kalanithi

#55. All those night long phone calls! All those secret visits to my house! All those secret walks! And you're fond of me! You think I'm being over dramatic! How about I break your face open for over dramatics!" ~Becca

Annabell Cadiz

#56. I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives
First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves
The world; and, vainly favored, it repays
The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze
By no change of its large calm front of snow.

Robert Browning

#57. If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

Ahmet Davutoglu

#58. I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

Elinor Lipman

#59. I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.

Kathryn Harrison

#60. If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

James Burgh

#61. When depression visits
I shall hang myself
to the sound of my lover's breathing

Sarah Kane

#62. Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Jane Badler

#63. What ... what about when I'm married?"
"We'll buy a cot. Your husband can sleep on that when he visits.

Stephanie Perkins

#64. No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#65. Get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there. p. 591

Mark Z. Danielewski

#66. Eating Primal Blueprint style for the rest of your life is much cheaper than long-term prescription drug regimens or extensive doctor visits or hospital stays for cardiac bypass surgery or cancer treatments.

Mark Sisson

#67. If you pray for an angel to visit you, you know what he'll do if he comes. He'll just quote the scriptures to you - so you know you're wasting your time waiting for what we already have. I'm quite serious about that.

Hugh Nibley

#68. Grief is devastating, all-consuming. But grief merely visits friends, even the closest. It stays much longer, probably forever, with the family, but that was probably how it should be.

Harlan Coben

#69. I have a boutique in L.A. and travel there frequently. My visits always put me in a good mood. Maybe it's all the sunshine. I could totally live in L.A.

Monika Chiang

#70. Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits.
-David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme-

Lora Leigh

#71. Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

Jennifer Granholm

#72. Having a record of well-child visits also protects parents, especially those who choose to follow an alternative lifestyle, from being accused of medical neglect. An ongoing record showing regular well-child visits goes a long way to negate such accusations, supposing they are ever made.

Anonymous

#73. After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Cecil Beaton

#74. He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

Moliere

#75. We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke an indefinable impression: as a result of this sighting backward in time, the absence of the object becomes a presence one can feel.

Ivan Chtcheglov

#76. My visits to Hungary over the past twelve years absolutely fixed my conviction that God's Holy Spirit was releasing a spiritual force in that part of the world that was bound to challenge the atheistic philosophy that had dominated nations in that region for decades.

Billy Graham

#77. In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

Dalai Lama

#78. When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.

Sam Harris

#79. The government had been controlling my nightly visits.

Laura Thalassa

#80. Visits always give pleasure
if not the arrival, the departure.

Portuguese Proverb

#81. For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.

Arthur Miller

#82. But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out.

Christian Bale

#83. She found, in visits, relief from the aches of old age. "I have Even in my self in times Past Lost the snse of Paine for some time by the Injoyment of good Company." She

Jill Lepore

#84. The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

Lisa Loeb

#85. The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

Anita Desai

#86. By the close of 2015, the queen had visited 128 countries. Her most popular destination was Canada (27 visits), followed by Australia (18 visits). When asked to explain her desire to explore, Elizabeth reportedly had a simple yet logical explanation. "I have to be seen to be believed.

The Editors Of LIFE

#87. I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intangible-doing what was not contemplated by the Machine. Then I said to myself, "Man is the measure", and I went, and after many visits I found an opening.

E. M. Forster

#88. Happiness is Grandad saving links to cat videos in a Word document so he can share them when she visits.

Carys Bray

#89. It had surprised and impressed Tessia to learn that Everran and Avaria owned two wagons, one for their own everyday use and one kept for visits to the Royal Palace. Since the journey to the palace consisted of half the length of two streets, it seemed frivolous to own a vehicle especially for it.

Trudi Canavan

#90. The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?

Andrew Miller

#91. As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.

Pankaj Mishra

#92. The legends say, that Ares takes the form of his warriors and he visits their wives while they're away at battle.

Gabrielle

#93. You have been put too much to literary work,' he said on one of his visits, 'and that is the cause of your complaint.

Sarah Waters

#94. I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'

Narendra Modi

#95. Good music is a king or a queen; when it visits a place, all rise to their feet!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#96. How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

Logan Pearsall Smith

#97. As Pope Francis visits the United States for the very first time, it is our privilege as Catholics and Americans to welcome His Holiness to our country. Here, he will find people who are uniquely free.

Marco Rubio

#98. To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

Adam Smith

#99. I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.

Betsy King

#100. If a chairman of a company visits Seattle, that chairman should take all the staff out in the evening and have a few drinks together, talk together and party together and not be embarrassed about the staff seeing the weaker side of you.

Richard Branson