Quotes About Landmarks

The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.

I love visiting Landmark Trust properties, which tend to be historical follies in extraordinary places.

The architecture in Barcelona is very unique, and I think it's something to truly spend some time getting to know all the cool places.

When I learned about this, I was told that it was "instinct." ("Instinct" continues to be the explanation of choice whenever animal behavior implies too much intelligence.) Instinct, though, wouldn't go very far in explaining how pigeons use human transportation routes to navigate. Pigeons follow highways and take particular exits, likely following many of the same landmarks as the humans driving below.

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.

Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars.

They came to the strange blue lands and put their names upon the lands.

Sebbene lo Stato si ostini a dare un nome alle strade, la gente stabilisce i propri punti di riferimento in maniera del tutto autonoma. Una chiesa, una casa abbandonata, un parco, un edificio pubblico, uno stadio, un cimitero: qualunque cosa può andare bene. Ognuno insomma finisce per inventarsi una sua personale mappa urbana.

I never got used to the way the horizon there could just erase itself and leave you marooned, adrift, in an incomplete dreamscape that was like a sketch for the world you knew, in an amnesia-land, a kind of skewed Heaven where the old landmarks were recognizable but spaced too far apart, and disarranged, and made terrible by the emptiness around them.

I never got used to the way the horizon there could just erase itself and leave you marooned, adrift, in an incomplete dreamscape that was like a sketch for the world you knew—the outline of a single tree standing in for a grove, lamp-posts and chimneys floating up out of context before the surrounding canvas was filled in—an amnesia-land, a kind of skewed Heaven where the old landmarks were recognizable but spaced too far apart, and disarranged, and made terrible by the emptiness

I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city.

Washington, D.C., is one of my favorite cities.

I'm a Londoner. Embankment. Big Ben. Cab drivers.

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially at night.

monuments of historic achievement

In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York Times' - coupled with the favourable Supreme Court rulings on publication of the Pentagon Papers - were landmarks for the interpretation of First Amendment rights and the freedom of the press.

Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Belgium is such a beautiful place with so much history and charm.

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

People who teach American history survey classes have a lot of ground to cover and tend to focus on landmarks. You get through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and you have to get to the beginning of the 20th century fast. It's pretty easy to go lightly on the Gilded Age.

I caught a couple of landmarks and knew we were on Benedict Canyon Drive, getting up into the hills. I'd driven here several times before—in happier days—and I knew almost all the road. It was hilly along here and there were steep clifflike drops and sloping ones. Maybe Dutch would let me jump off a cliff. Suicide. I strained at the rope on my wrists, but it was tight.

travelers need only focus on four areas: the Old City, the harbor/Barceloneta, the Eixample, and Montjuïc.

London is more than its museums and landmarks. It's a living, breathing, thriving organism...a coral reef of humanity. You can enjoy some of Europe's best people-watching at Covent Garden, Victoria Station, Piccadilly Circus, or any of the major stops on London's subway system, known affectionately as the Tube.

The sketches were uncanny, almost photographic in quality. Reference points were given; the viewers described the surrounding terrain and landmarks. There were even sketches showing the aircraft's location in relation to the Ecuadorean search teams. In every sketch there was a phantom, a transparent body: sort of a self portrait of the viewer in the target area.