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Quotes About Visitors

this could be a college guest room, for the less distinguished visitors; or a room in a rooming house, of former times, for ladies in reduced circumstances. That is what we are now. The circumstances have been reduced; for those of us who still have circumstances.
~ Margaret Atwood
We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.
~ Edgar Mitchell
It's also very annoying when you've made a fuss over some children who have come on a passing visit, and gone out of your way to give them things they'll like, and now they've come to expect this treatment and start constantly turning up and running around knocking things over.
~ Sei Sh?nagon
The reason Steve Herrell's shop did so well is that it was famous for having a line! People brought folks from out of town to have the experience.
~ Seth Godin
Fish and guests in three days are stale.
~ John Lyly
Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.
~ John Linder
Someone would come and see her. Someone always came. There was always a knock at the door. Everyone had a right to come to her; that was what she was for, that was her function, her reason for being. There was never an hour that belonged to her.
~ Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
We live on just in the same way, having very few visitors, and receiving them in the quietest of hospitalities.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All kinds of things can affect your baby's sleep: teething, sickness, vacations, visitors, vaccinations, or simply disruptions to your daily routine.
~ Elizabeth Pantley
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
~ Australian Aboriginal Proverb
Normally, on the rare chance that a celebrity comes to my property, I get real nervous.
~ Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Midnight Visitors,' whispered Suzy fearfully. 'With nightmare-whips and night-gloves.
~ Garth Nix
Most visitors to Iceland tend to spend just a few hours in Reykjavik before moving on to the geological wonders beyond. I think they are missing out.
~ Fiona Bruce
Among those who came to visit me were some who had received a liberal education at the Colleges of Unreason, and taken the highest degrees in hypothetics, which are their principal study.
~ Samuel Butler
When I work, I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
~ Anthony Robbins
Some friend of yours, perhaps? Except yourself I have none, he answered. I do not encourage visitors.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
And software developed by Raptor Technologies, a Houston-based firm, is commonly used to track school visitors by checking their driver's licenses against a national database of sex offenders.10
~ John W. Whitehead
A number of visitors called this morning,' Finchley announced with some pride. He took a tray from a waiting footman and displayed it as if it were a baby. Sure enough there was a little heap of cardboard bits, embossed with the names of nobility, acquaintances, friends and the purely curious.
~ Eloisa James
When visitors come to a worship service in my own religious tradition, a great deal depends on how warmly they are welcomed and whether they feel included or excluded by what they hear during the short time they are with us. We may have exactly one shot at communicating who we are to people who know nothing about us - or who think they already know a lot about us - but who, in either case, will remember us at the embodiment of our entire tradition, the prime exemplars of our faith.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Guides were Franciscan monks, sole custodians of the holy places after 1230, who recited the history and traditions associated with each town or monument or site of Biblical events to parties of visitors as they arrived. More
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
When I'm bored, I hate being alone so there's always a friend at my place.
~ Akhil Akkineni
VISITORS FROM THE HALL.
~ George MacDonald
Lady Winwood being denied, the morning caller inquired with some anxiety for Miss Winwood, or, in fact, for any of the young ladies.
~ Georgette Heyer
None of the Aldens knew that they were the first real callers Miss Gray had had for many years.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner