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Quotes About Visitors

When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.
~ Ashley Madekwe
When someone stays with you and they're not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens.
~ Sean Durkin
It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime.
~ Susan Orlean
Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.
~ Beeban Kidron
I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
~ Sidney Poitier
Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.
~ Pedro Almodovar
We try to create as safe an environment as possible for our citizens and for our visitors. That's one of the main positive features of Monaco. In an ever-changing and difficult world, it's a tremendous asset.
~ Albert II, Prince of Monaco
The Queen was really thrilled that we'd had a little girl, and when we came back here to Kensington, she was one of her first visitors.
~ Kate Middleton
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
~ Charles C. Mann
My first visit to the Large Hadron Collider was in April 2008, before it started up, and CERN had some open days. They were slightly shocked by the end of it because I think they got something like 50,000 visitors.
~ Peter Higgs
Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.
~ Elton Gallegly
Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact as if on some sort of comfortable global platform.
~ Rory MacLean
As the mayor of London, my highest priority is keeping Londoners and visitors to our city safe from harm.
~ Sadiq Khan
One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, carrying visitors on a one and one-half hour trip past Johnson's birthplace, the family cemetery and ranch house, and through the ranch.
~ Michael Frome
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
~ Samuel Richardson
As a member of Congress representing Southern Nevada, I am always advocating for our tourism industry, talking about our millions of annual visitors, and reminding folks in Washington, D.C., that we are the entertainment capital of the world.
~ Jacky Rosen
I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.
~ Paul Theroux
There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'
~ Charles Francis Richter
Here's what we must do: Completely reform the vetting process for immigrants and foreign visitors. Change the screening process. Come up with a new visa-application review process. Stop this nonsense of marriage-visa fraud. And in the meantime, seal the borders.
~ Lawrence Kudlow
We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.
~ Howard Carter
Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.
~ Geoff Mulgan
When it comes to managing crocodiles, we are learning that it is actually more important to manage people. Learning how to keep people safe from crocodiles will ultimately protect visitors to croc territory as well as the crocodilians themselves.
~ Terri Irwin
There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business.
~ David K. E. Bruce
I rarely have out-of-town visitors because you have to do things like take them around L.A.
~ Jen Kirkman