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Quotes About Visitor

No trip to Hana is complete without at least noticing the famous HASEGAWA STORE. Somewhat a legend (even immortalized in song), this aloha-filled delightfully overflowing country store (begin 1910) is designed to carry everything you need plus incidentals to interest the visitor. If you need film, 2 x 4's, beer or diapers. Harry the friendly proprietor, is bound to stock it.
~ Angela Kay Kepler
Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.
~ Romesh Gunesekera
When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.
~ Nicolas Cage
One frequent visitor, an opera singer, often rang up Rasputin simply to sing to him his favorite songs over the telephone. Taking the telephone, Rasputin danced around the room, holding the earpiece to his ear. At the table, Rasputin stroked the arms and hair of the women sitting next to him.
~ Robert K. Massie
wooden visitor chair polished to a high shine by a thousand pairs of pants.
~ Lee Child
six-five two-fifty visitor.
~ Lee Child
A small village lay just over the farthest hill. When he had to feed, he went there. And when he left after feeding, the people he'd met, even those he'd fed upon, immediately forgot he'd been there at all. Every time he entered the village, the residents greeted him as a new visitor. That was his power, his curse, his salvation; no one remembered him.
~ Linda Howard
In the visitor's book at Crome Ivor had left, according to his invariable custom in these cases, a poem. He had improvised it magisterially in the ten minutes preceding his departure. Denis and Mr. Scogan strolled back together from the gates of the courtyard, whence they had bidden their last farewells; on the writing-table in the hall they found the visitor's book, open, and Ivor's composition scarcely dry. Mr. Scogan read it aloud:
~ Aldous Huxley
Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.
~ Dorothy Gambrell
A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.
~ Joan Walsh Anglund
Just when I finally found fifteen minutes for myself, the dead man came to the door.
~ JoAnna Carl
Oh look, here's Death at the gate! Punctual as ever.
~ Anne Carson
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind A shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind The gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
~ Robert Nathan
A story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend
~ Lorrie Moore
Making friends with the impersonal necessity of death is an ethical way of installing oneself in life as a transient, slightly wounded visitor.
~ Rosi Braidotti
A visitor to campus can find sweet, aromatic Properity, as well as Climbing Ophelia and those delicious Egyptian Roses, which give off the scent of cloves on rainy days, ensuring that a gardener's hands will smell sweet for hours after pruning the canes.
~ Alice Hoffman
Maria had been expecting a visitor, for the broom had fallen only an hour earlier, which always meant company was coming.
~ Alice Hoffman
Down at the beginning of the new road, at park headquarters, is the new entrance station and visitor center, where admission fees are collected and where the rangers are going quietly nuts answering the same three basic questions five hundred times a day: (1) Where's the john? (2) How long's it take to see this place? (3) Where's the Coke machine? Progress has come at last to the Arches, after a million years of neglect. Industrial Tourism has arrived. What
~ Edward Abbey
Hark, a knock at the door!
~ Edward Blackwell
Alone I continue living, yet when a visitor arrives it kills me.
~ Franz Kafka
True, the same visitor concedes, in the city you will also 'see the most beautiful sights on earth'
~ Roderick Beaton
Oh, goody! The doorbell.
~ Ann M. Martin
The Black Death was a faithful visitor to Florence. It arrived, on average, once every ten years, always in the summer.
~ Ross King
Sometimes, I get this familiar ache in my heart and a sense of stabbing emptiness around my ribcage. I don't even know what brings it on; it's just familiar like a horrible visitor. What brings me to my knees though, is the even bigger heart-hurt when I recognize this ghastly guest is back again.
~ Ruby Wax