Quotes About Kent

Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

One weekend in the vacation, I was invited to meet her family. They lived in Kent, out on the Orpington line, in one of those suburbs which had stopped concreting over nature at the very last minute, and ever since smugly claimed rural status.

his experience, only people acted out of pure malice.

You tell stories but they're real. There are monsters and they eat the hearts of children.

William Kent Krueger

His apology had the dull ring of a cracked bell, but I didn't see any point in needling him further.

but those words that help to armor every child against the indifference of the world were never spoken. Liam

should have been in Parliament, Allday." Allday put down his empty glass. He had never seen him in quite this mood before, "I'm too honest, sir.

They were saying "Make peace, not war," and so, the Commander of the Ohio State National Guard testified in the course of the Kent State trials, he threw a rock at them.

Kent no hay aeropuerto. Hay uno en

During the Second World War a giant puffball was found under an oak tree in Kent, and was suspected of being a new kind of bomb (later it was labelled 'Hitler's Secret Weapon' and put on exhibition to raise funds for the war effort).

AROMA (OLD WORLD) HOPS Cascade Cluster East Kent Goldings Fuggle Hallertauer Hersbrucker Tettnang Willamette

Ramsgate, Kent, in the early nineteenth century.  During the last twelve years of her life, Radcliffe suffered from a spasmodic asthma, calling for the unwearied attentions of her affectionate husband. In the hope of obtaining relief, they visited Ramsgate in the autumn of 1822. Radcliffe wrote her last piece of writing here.

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

Its pattern of blue flowers and leaves had gone silvery. Kath fastened her eyes on these, while they tied Kent up in knots and he didn't even realize it.

Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them.

I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.

What's your enterprise of choice? Vane grinned. Hops. Patience blinked. Hops? A vital ingredient used to flavor and clarify beers. I own Pembury Manor, an estate near Tunbridge in Kent. And you grow hops? Vane's smile teased. As well as apples, pears, cherries, and cob nuts. Drawing back in her saddle, Patience stared at him. You're a farmer! One brown brow rose. Among other things. Recognizing the glint in his eyes, she swallowed a humph.

I don't have the figure for fashion and I've never heard anyone say I was a fashion icon.

I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

Charles Darwin announced that the geological processes that created the Weald, an area of southern England stretching across Kent, Surrey and Sussex, had taken, by his calculations, 306, 662, 400 years to complete.

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.

When I lived in Whitstable, Kent, I used a Harvester all the time in Herne Bay and people used to say, 'I didn't expect to see you in here.' Why wouldn't I be in here?