country quotations
Apr 25th, 2003, 07:59 AM
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do you have any quotations about your favorite european country? here are some good ones about Italy:
"You may have the universe if I may have Italy." -Giuseppe Verdi
"Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel as if I have made a mistake. All too often I have changed my plans and leftyfrom a ski resort in the French Alps, a mountain town in Switzerland, a country house in Provenceyto get to Italy as soon as possible. Once across the border I can breathe again. Why bother to go anywhere, I think in those first ecstatic moments of re-entry, but Italy?" -Erica Jong
"The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables." -Mary Shelley
"The traveler who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it." -E.M. Forster
"You may have the universe if I may have Italy." -Giuseppe Verdi
"Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel as if I have made a mistake. All too often I have changed my plans and leftyfrom a ski resort in the French Alps, a mountain town in Switzerland, a country house in Provenceyto get to Italy as soon as possible. Once across the border I can breathe again. Why bother to go anywhere, I think in those first ecstatic moments of re-entry, but Italy?" -Erica Jong
"The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables." -Mary Shelley
"The traveler who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it." -E.M. Forster
May 25th, 2003, 07:29 PM
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Shakespeare-
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,?
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,?
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England
May 26th, 2003, 12:32 PM
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"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." Harry Lime
May 26th, 2003, 01:43 PM
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I always feel emotional when I hear 'Jerusalem' (the hymn) - here goes:
"And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
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I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land."
Blake, William (1757 - 1827)
British poet.
The music always gives me goosebumps. I wish it was our national anthem!
"And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
...
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land."
Blake, William (1757 - 1827)
British poet.
The music always gives me goosebumps. I wish it was our national anthem!
Nov 30th, 2003, 05:44 AM
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Here's a great Italy one:
"For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,
Poetic fields encompass me around,
And still I seem to tread on classic ground.
-Joseph Addison, Letter from Italy
"For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,
Poetic fields encompass me around,
And still I seem to tread on classic ground.
-Joseph Addison, Letter from Italy
Nov 30th, 2003, 05:54 AM
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OK, so it's not about a country, but more likely just travel in general, and it's a line from a movie, but it seems to have fit so many travel situations in my life:
"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."
"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."
Nov 30th, 2003, 07:09 AM
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Jackie,
Here's one for dear 'ol Erin:
"Were such scenery lying upon English shores it would be a world's wonder. If it were on the Mediterranean or the Baltic, English travellers would flock to it. Why not come to see it in Ireland?"
W. Thackeray
Here's one for dear 'ol Erin:
"Were such scenery lying upon English shores it would be a world's wonder. If it were on the Mediterranean or the Baltic, English travellers would flock to it. Why not come to see it in Ireland?"
W. Thackeray
Nov 30th, 2003, 08:56 AM
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"Onward I was resolved to go, till I knocked my head against an impenetrable wall, and you will be amused to see how gradually one difficulty after another disappeared".
This is from Crauford Ramage, a young eccentric Englishman who traveled by foot and mule from Naples, past Salerno and into Southern Italy in 1828. I am reading his memoirs of that trip, here is another one:
"I have got safely to the end of my first day's journey, and, when I tell you all the fatigues I have undergone, I dare say you will allow that I am pretty well seasoned for the tour I have undertaken"
On Neapolitans "they are like their own Vesuvius, which, after appearing to have slumbered for many years, bursts forth suddenly, more terrible than ever, and causes the whole land to tremble."
"I was so charmed, however, with the appearance of the mountains and the coolness of the air, that I resolved to face the brigands...I proceeded to ascend the mountainrange which was covered with magnificient oaks, beeches and gloomy pines..every step presented new beauties.."
It is so interesting to see how after all these years, some things just don't change. His writings remind me of John Muir.
This is from Crauford Ramage, a young eccentric Englishman who traveled by foot and mule from Naples, past Salerno and into Southern Italy in 1828. I am reading his memoirs of that trip, here is another one:
"I have got safely to the end of my first day's journey, and, when I tell you all the fatigues I have undergone, I dare say you will allow that I am pretty well seasoned for the tour I have undertaken"
On Neapolitans "they are like their own Vesuvius, which, after appearing to have slumbered for many years, bursts forth suddenly, more terrible than ever, and causes the whole land to tremble."
"I was so charmed, however, with the appearance of the mountains and the coolness of the air, that I resolved to face the brigands...I proceeded to ascend the mountainrange which was covered with magnificient oaks, beeches and gloomy pines..every step presented new beauties.."
It is so interesting to see how after all these years, some things just don't change. His writings remind me of John Muir.
Nov 30th, 2003, 10:18 AM
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EnglishOne, we Scots too wish you wuold claim Jerusalem. So we don't have to get emotional about England's green and pleasant land. It would also mean that we didn't have to have as OUR National Anthem a hymn with the following verse:-
Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush,
And like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush.
God save the King!
For my quote I give you the Declaration of Arbroath
For so long as one hundred men remain alive,we shall never under any conditions submit to the domination of the English. It is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which no good man will consent to lose but with his life.
Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush,
And like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush.
God save the King!
For my quote I give you the Declaration of Arbroath
For so long as one hundred men remain alive,we shall never under any conditions submit to the domination of the English. It is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which no good man will consent to lose but with his life.
Nov 30th, 2003, 11:30 AM
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>"President Bush says his visit to England is going so well, if time permits, he wants to visit the United Kingdom and Great Britain as well."<
Mr Leno has a better grasp of the coutry than he knows. England is part of Great Britain (England/Wales and Scotland) which is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Mr Leno has a better grasp of the coutry than he knows. England is part of Great Britain (England/Wales and Scotland) which is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
