Visigoths Quotes

#1. The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.

Antony Beevor

#2. I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#3. The armies of the night are faceless and mindless and the modern equivalent of Visigoths, but when they have a leader, their time in history rolls around again.

James Lee Burke

#4. Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

Dan Simmons

#5. Rome versus the Visigoths, Ancient Egypt versus the Hyksos, Aztecs versus the Spaniards.

Margaret Atwood

#6. Justice is the well water of the city of/ Novgorod, black and sweet

Robert Hass

#7. I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

Michael Gove

#8. I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

Bob Saget

#9. You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.

Elissa Schappell

#10. I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban.

Ahmed Rashid

#11. Government corruption made it possible to obtain authentic passports and visas, which were much more reliable than fake ones.

Kenneth Eade

#12. For whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

Henri Matisse

#13. Most collisions out on the fields are needless.

Ty Cobb

#14. No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

George Will

#15. We've got a cultural issue in America. We've got to change the whole way the issue is looked at. That's the mission. Some in the political process don't have enough patience for that, and I probably don't either.

George W. Bush

#16. You are a chameleon, and now you are at your worst colour. Go home, or I shall hate you!

Thomas Hardy

#17. I hate people who start conversations with facts - what are you supposed to do with that? Sure is hot today. Yes, it is.

Gillian Flynn

#18. Because you're a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.

Doreen Virtue