Claude Grahame-White Quotes

First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be next-door neighbors. . . . What railways have done for nations, airways will do for the world.

Claude Grahame-White

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• A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Doubt
  • Mood
  • Golden

• Two sets of railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any place to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, on smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages so that they may pass each other in different directions and travel by night as well as by day; and the passengers will sleep in these stages as comfortably as they do now in steam stage-boats.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • Different
  • May
  • Night

• I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Family
  • History
  • Identity

• Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.

  

  Epictetus
  • Know
  • Linked

• Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

  

  William Feather
  • Essence
  • Cooperation
  • Linked

• This is an unusual outbreak because it is linked to one source that has nationwide implications,

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Source
  • Unusual
  • Linked

• I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... The Americans are great boilermakers.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Pressure
  • Americans
  • Globe

• Time is a snow globe; you shake it and everything changes.

  

  Alison Pick
  • Time
  • Changes
  • Globe

• My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, Linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife.

  

  Charles Gavan Duffy
  • Friend
  • Wife
  • Equal

• Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.

  

  Elizabeth Zimmermann
  • Confidence
  • Crises
  • Knit

• There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing is "wrong," don't take umbrage; they mean well. Smile submissively, and listen, keeping your disagreement on an entirely mental level. They may be right, in this particular case, and even if not, they may drop off pieces of information which will come in very handy if you file them away carefully in your brain for future reference.

  

  Elizabeth Zimmermann
  • Information
  • Mental
  • Reference

• If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

  

  Michael Flanders
  • God
  • Intended
  • Railways

• When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives.

  

  Ellen MacArthur
  • Goal
  • Outcome
  • Sustainability

• Perfume must not be linked just to fashion because that means that one day it will go out of style.

  

  Thierry Mugler
  • Fashion
  • Mean
  • Style

• After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked.

  

  Susan Eisenhower
  • Nuclear
  • Linked
  • Disarmament

• You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Believe
  • You
  • Forgive

• I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Bridges
  • Cross

• Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

  

  Michael Wilbon
  • Sports
  • Define

• Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Stars
  • Ourselves
  • Default

• Everybody dreams, but memory for dreams is famously elusive. Even Sigmund Freud, without the benefit of modern technology's electroencephalogram, or EEG, did not know that adult humans dream 90 minutes per night, and that newborns spend eight hours per day dreaming (out of their 16 hours of sleep). REM sleep helps grow the brain!

  

  Charles McPhee
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Sleep

• First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be next-door neighbors. . . . What railways have done for nations, airways will do for the world.

  

  Claude Grahame-White
  • Globe
  • Linked
  • Knit