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Quotes About Visitors

Goodhue wanted visitors to feel more than that they were in a pretty building. He wanted them to feel they were part of a three-dimensional meditation on the power of human intellect and the potency of storytelling.
~ Susan Orlean
I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
~ Larry David
In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, the aging John Adams recalled the Massachusetts of his youth as a multiracial society. "Aaron Pomham the Priest and Moses Pomham the Kind of the Punkapaug and Neponsit Tribes were frequent Visitors at my Father's House Ã¢â'¬Â¦," he wrote nostalgically.
~ Charles C. Mann
present visitors with a tiny beaded pin of the American and Irish flags. It was a big turnout the day I was there, eighteen
~ Tom Brokaw
As often as not, a man who sticks at home knows next to nothing about his guest.
~ Kevin Crossley-Holland
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
~ Khalil Gibran
Additionally, visitors can learn some interesting lessons in military logistics since a section of George Spangler's acreage behind the hospital site served as a camp for some of the Army of the Potomac's Reserve Artillery.8
~ Carol Reardon
And Arya, well . . . Ned's visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. Arya was a trial, it must be said. Half a boy and half a wolf pup.
~ George R.R. Martin
She does not reply. She would rather hide her face, and he knows why. Because of the disgrace. Because of the shame. That is what their visitors have achieved; that is what they have done to this confidant, modern young woman. Like a stain the story is spreading across the district. Not her story to spread but theirs: they are its owners. How they put her in her place, how they showed her what a woman was for.
~ J.M. Coetzee
None of his brothers dared to throw out a grumble, because the protocol button had been punched: If they were around outsiders, they treated him as their sovereign lord and king. Which meant no fucking around and no insubordination. Maybe they needed visitors more often in the fucking house
~ J.R. Ward
A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.
~ Karen Blixen, Out of Africa
The myriad visitors to Bethune's grave include peasants and men of renown, famous names and anonymous workers. They stand with equal reverence before it, and they leave it feeling an equal gratitude. For, in the memory of Bethune's life, the great are reminded of people from whom they draw their strength, and the people are reminded of the road that everyone can travel to greatness.
~ Ted Allan
Each year, millions of skiers come to Colorado to experience its superb emergency medical facilities.
~ Dave Barry
Eventually the visitors were treated to a thoroughly non-ironic dinner at an Applebee's.
~ Neal Stephenson
There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
~ Zaha Hadid
Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no visitors. It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory.
~ Upton Sinclair
having people over at all house very day of the week.
~ Cathy Yardley
For all the energy directed toward the stratagem of big city living, New Yorkers are never too distracted to respond to, and more often, proactively assist visitors. Tourists tracing the routes of subway maps with their fingers, squinting at street signs or staring at a slip of paper with confusion are typical recipients of our generosity. We know our city can be as challenging as it is fascinating, and we want visitors to have a good experience.
~ Gina Greenlee
The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it.
~ Author Unknown
Fish and Visitors stink in 3 days.
~ Benjamin Franklin, 1736
Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.
~ African Proverb
The mariachis grinned and the leader apologized: "We thought you were only a norteamericano." I winced at this pejorative term but said nothing, because I knew that proud Mexicans liked to remind visitors from the north, "Everyone on this continent is an americano, you're a norteamericano. Don't rob us of our name by stealing it for yourselves.
~ James A. Michener
The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON
~ Nora Roberts