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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. -- Willa Cather
All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks. -- Bill Vaughan
The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused. -- Gene Robinson
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. -- William H. Gass
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. -- William O. Douglas
Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there. -- Pete du Pont
Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it -- Drake
I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ...what a total thrill. -- Karen Mason
Writers are the main landmarks of the past. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. -- Edmund Burke
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism. -- Dick Schaap
I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things. -- Bill Bryson
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run. -- Barry Eichengreen
And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed. -- Allen Klein
In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place -- Tracy Kidder
With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what to observe and where to act. -- John Henry Holland
I wouldnt mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal. -- Megalyn Echikunwoke
I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal. -- Megalyn Echikunwoke
To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things. -- Mary Hunter Austin
Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood. -- Vic Morrow
Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this seasons episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldnt possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood. -- Vic Morrow
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few. -- Larry McMurtry
Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence will say, 'Oh, that building there is being knocked down, who did that one?' -- Jonathan Meades
I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks. -- Dave Barry
All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless. -- Bill Vaughan
All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless. -- Bill Vaughan
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty. -- Eric Hoffer
When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it's rare for an author to see the place she's created actually spring to life. -- Lori Wilde
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought. -- Peter Medawar
It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town. -- Gary Oldman
In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York Times' - coupled with the favourable Supreme Court rulings on publication of the Pentagon Papers - were landmarks for the interpretation of First Amendment rights and the freedom of the press. -- Lionel Barber
I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with 'Lost in Translation' and 'Rushmore.' I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great. -- Will Ferrell
Life hath set No landmarks before us. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks. -- Katharine Tynan
Without spiritual landmarks, mankind wanders . . . Without the word of God, we walk in circles. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another. -- Grant Morrison
I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum. -- Lewis Pugh
Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
The White House is apparently pushing to create more Latino-themed landmarks. Now that's in addition to our current Latino-themed landmark, California. -- Jimmy Fallon
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed. -- Robert Henri
A lot of people don't think much about what land surveyors do. In a nutshell, we are the interpreters and providers of landmarks and records that directly impact real property. -- Mark Mason
Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks are. -- Twyla Tharp
We know that Seattle is mentioned frequently ... a computer was found in Afghanistan showing pictures of Seattle-area landmarks. So we are in constant contact with the FBI and with other federal authorities, -- Greg Nickels
The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time. -- Johannes Kepler

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