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Quotes About Visiting

My momma says whenever you go to somebody's house, you have to give them something. Don't come empty-handed.
~ GloZell
She had used a simile, to explain and flatter and apologize all at once. She had written, "You're like New York City. I love to visit, but I could never live there.
~ Lee Child
Einstein, who was then a professor in Berlin, was by chance visiting Caltech in the United States the day Hitler was appointed.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
I think this bandage is not needed," said Mma Ramotswe, bending down to remove it. "Hospitals feel they have to put a bandage on anybody who goes there—just in case. Sometimes you get a bandage even if you are just visiting somebody.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Father-in-law comes to stay, goes to local church and returns saying he will spend the rest of his life translating New English Bible back into English.
~ Jilly Cooper
My own children wouldn't think of dropping in without calling to see if I'm busy.
~ Joan Crawford
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.
~ Ann Radcliffe
When Complex hired me, originally I wasn't at First We Feast, I was just like a hired hand for Complex. They'd send me out to different events or they'd have people visiting the office and I'd do interviews with athletes, musicians, whoever.
~ Sean Evans
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
~ Willa Cather
So, what brings you to town?" Sean took a sip of his beer. "Burning off some leave. Visiting my brother. I have a little over six weeks of leave left. I used to hit the bars with my brother, but his running days are over." "War injury?" the bartender asked. "Battle of the sexes. He just got married." The bartender whistled. "My condolences." Tonight
~ Robyn Carr
I am not a young lady, and it's only a step. Take care of yourself, won't you? Yes, but you will come again, I hope? If you promise to come and see us after you are well. I will. Good night, Laurie! Good night, Jo, good night! When all the afternoon's adventures had been told, the family felt inclined to go visiting in a body
~ Louisa May Alcott
Go not empty unto thy mother in law.
~ Anonymous
My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
~ Kary Mullis
I decided to open up The Bailey Wine Cellar because after visiting Napa and touring the wineries there, I genuinely became interested in and more curious about the wine culture.
~ Cynthia Bailey
People who are visiting Long Island find it's very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products.
~ Jerry Della Femina
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
~ Abraham Verghese
Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Once a visiting carnival boxer was getting the best of the Rooneys' friend Squawker Mullen and Dan reached into the ring and belted the carnie and his friends hollered "Hey Rube!" and in the ensuing melee the tent collapsed and the disturbance raged on lumpily within the great folds of canvas.
~ Roy Blount Jr.
Despite all that she did for me, Melanie had a distant smell. She smelled like a floral guest soap in a strange house I was visiting.
~ Margaret Atwood
You'll want to meet with the Champion for each of the forecasted deals to ensure your rep has a Champion and is in control." Maniacally qualifying deals early in the quarter by visiting the Champions of your reps' forecasted deals in the first month of a quarter is one of the surest methods of gaining a deep understanding of your forecast.
~ John McMahon
The Blue Book Time and again I'm asked for recommendations of must-do's while visiting Nantucket. As Lizbet Keaton says in this novel, "The world needs a Nantucket guidebook written by an island
~ Elin Hilderbrand
And it became even more interesting when we realized that we were visiting the same six or seven work centers every time. They're not bottlenecks, but the sequence in which they perform their jobs became very important. We call them 'capacity constraint resources,' CCR for short.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Of course, your closest family and friends will want to get to know this little person, too, but make sure that visiting isn't your primary activity these days—except for those truly helpful people who can make a meal, run a load of laundry, or hold the baby while you nap! The
~ Elizabeth Pantley
This must be the way most of us maneuver in the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true. But when I see others walking with confidence down the street, as though they are free completely from terror, I realize I don't know how others are. So much of life seems speculation.
~ Elizabeth Strout