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Quotes About Visitors

Occupation? Put down, well – tourists. We've been called harder names before now;
~ Joseph Conrad
and it is our fear of our regrets that causes our fear of the visitors.
~ Whitley Strieber
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~ David Aaker
The press of visitors, a New York Times reporter observed, never seemed "to try the President's strength or impair his good temper." At one o'clock, Roosevelt
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here." To welcome visitors the arrivals hall featured a picture of the president of NowWhat, smiling. It was the only picture anybody could find of him, and it had been taken shortly after he had shot himself, so although the photo had been retouched as well as could be managed, the smile it wore was rather a ghastly one.
~ Douglas Adams
Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.
~ African Proverb
There were also American visitors fascinated by seeing the titled English really getting down to their traditional afternoon tea.
~ Agatha Christie
You got your cheese, I hope? You won't mind a word of advice? Eat it. Don't put it in a plastic bag in the fridge and save it for visitors; before you know where you are it'll have swollen to three times its size and smell like a chemical factory. You'll open the bag and be putting your face into a bad marriage.
~ Julian Barnes
As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet." "Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115
~ Maria V. Snyder
If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.
~ Jane Austen
And are we not all "mere guests" upon this whirling earth?
~ Lee Smith, Guests on Earth
Visitors come and go.Daily I read tea leaves for signsof the approaching century:a raven perched on a crossa sword piercing a cloud--A Victorian Life
~ Clara Blackwood, Forecast
Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
~ William Cowper
The church that worships will have many visitors who never come back, and a few who cannot stay away. Perhaps
~ David Hansen
Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness.
~ Dave Barry
Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving
~ Confucius
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
~ Robert Breault
The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
New Yorkers and people visiting New York from the world over go to the night-clubs of Harlem and dance to such jazz music as can be heard nowhere else; and they get an exhilaration impossible to duplicate.
~ James Weldon Johnson
My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will.
~ Jane Smiley
In September 1919, Woodrow Wilson suffered a series of debilitating strokes that should have led to his resignation. For over a month, the president was so sick that he received no visitors and his wife, Edith Galt, and physician, Dr. Cary Grayson, essentially took over the affairs of state.
~ Jared Cohen
think men will change their mind or their beliefs, that they will gradually discover that they can't do without us, that we will be the exception in their lives or the visitors who end up staying, that they will eventually grow tired of those other invisible women whose existence we begin to doubt or whom we prefer to think do not exist, the more we see of the men and the more we love them despite ourselves; that we will be the chosen
~ Javier Marías
BECAUSE ROOSEVELT WAS9, in the image of Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University, "polygonal," visitors saw only certain facets of his personality at any given time.
~ Edmund Morris