Bedford Inn Quotes

There was a strong odor of electricity, grease and existential bitterness. ~ K.A. Bedford

Goes to show you can't judge a fish by the hook in it's mouth. ~ Erin R. Bedford

Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

To remain monolingual reduces the mind to the confines of a tramline. ~ Sybille Bedford

Attack in all directions! ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

You can never know the odds. If you don't play, you'll never win ~ Richard Bedford

What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes. ~ Sybille Bedford

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

A rose is still a rose, even hidden under different petals. ~ Erin R. Bedford

Guillermo was lonely and serviceable and always rushed in to do the things one wanted in a way one did not want them done. ~ Sybille Bedford

Public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good. ~ Sybille Bedford

No damn man kills me and lives. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

Dad reckoned there was a rational explanation for everything, even things that made no sense at all. UFOs, ghosts, God - they're just the names people came up with for stuff they haven't worked out yet. ~ Martyn Bedford

I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

I ended the war a horse ahead. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

If one road led to hell and the other to Mexico, I would be indifferent which to take. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

War means fighting, and fighting means killing. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit. ~ Sybille Bedford

If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn. ~ Walter Map

In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two, she had decided to go back to someone who had hurt her. ~ Deborah Bedford

We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there. ~ William Bell

This time he was underwater, running, feet sinking deeper and deeper into the seabed. The surface was within reach if he raised his arms, but he couldn't get his head out of the water. He had to breathe. The compulsion to inhale was huge. But he couldn't, musn't. Still he ran, getting nowhere, each frantic step burying his feet in the wet sand until he was no longer able to lift them. Finally, with one great gulp, he opened his mouth, his lungs to the flood of seawater. ~ Flip By Martyn Bedford

It was an eight-harlot inn, if that's how you measure an inn. (I understand that now they measure inns in stars. We are in a four-star inn right now. I don't know what the conversion from harlots to stars is.) ~ Christopher Moore

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all. ~ Randolph Bedford

The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home? 1.Consider ~ Thomas Watson

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time. ~ Sybille Bedford

I detest ... anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest bread, butter, olive oil, a generous spirit, lively appetites and attention to what we are eating. ~ Sybille Bedford

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road. ~ Ruth Pitter

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable. ~ Fernando Pessoa

We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this. ~ Eugenie De Guerin

I had taken this time to fall in love instead - inn love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt inn death - the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human - feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of nagivating the unknown. ~ Alice Sebold

One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not "for good"; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance. ~ Sybille Bedford

I loved the old government in 1861. I loved the old Constitution yet. I think it is the best government in the world, if administered as it was before the war. I do not hate it; I am opposing now only the radical revolutionists who are trying to destroy it. I believe that party to be composed, as I know it is in Tennessee, of the worst men on Gods earth - men who would not hesitate at no crime, and who have only one object in view - to enrich themselves. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

there. Take two cabs to the Tabard Inn, ~ Anonymous

I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them ... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest

In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece. ~ Herman Melville

We are in this life as it were in another man's house ... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home. ~ Gerhard

The logic behind using stone for the facing of the Empire State building seemed irrefutable, the choice of Bedford limestone inarguable. - architectural historian John Tauranac ~ Douglas Wissing

New York is an exploited colony called Brownsville
Bedford Stuyvesant or Harlem
Where tiny fat Jews are holding the fiery hoop
Watching you burn your ass jumping through it ~ Abiodun Oyewole

the Dew-Drop Inn & Fishing Camp; ~ Harper Lee

At the south end of the inn, away from the stream, stretched the remains of a much larger stone foundation, once part of the inn - or so it was said. A huge oak grew in the middle of it now, with a bole thirty paces around and spreading branches as thick as a man. In the summer, Bran al'Vere set tables and benches under those branches, shady with leaves then, where people could enjoy a cup and a cooling breeze while they talked or perhaps set out a board for a game of stones. ~ Robert Jordan

and a hundred savage painted Indians ran howling down upon the inn yard. ~ Edward Eager

Spring had come finally and after much hesitation, to Lincoln's Inn Fields and there were daffodils out upon the green grass and gilly-flowers blooming in the window-boxes of the ground floor sets. This being Lincoln's Inn, where an air of general severity prevails, they did so with an unconscionable meekness, as if they feared that some legal eminence- Mr Crabbe perhaps- would descend in wrath from his chambers and present them with a writ for unlicensed blossoming or occupying too great a proportion of space. ~ D.J. Taylor

Murder had come back to The Hatteras West Inn, and it was a most unwelcome guest. ~ Tim Myers

Wisps of steam like spectral maggots rose from their damp coats in the inn's fuggyheat ~ Kevin Barry

The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself. ~ Joan Of Arc

Even yet Christ Jesus has to lie out in waste places very often, because there is no room for him in the inn
no room for him in our hearts, because of our worldliness. There is no room for him even in our politics and religion. There is no room in the inn, and we put him in the manger, and he lies outside our faith, coldly and dimly conceived by us. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The world's an Inn; and I her guest. ~ Francis Quarles

Did you know I was born in a Holiday Inn. ~ Bret Easton Ellis

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford. ~ William Standish Knowles

managers, and, after her stay at that terrible old coaching inn, The Boar's Head, she welcomed even the ~ Marion Chesney

As for my feet, the little feet
You used to call so pretty,
There's one, I know, in Bedford Row,
The t'other's in the City. ~ Thomas Hood

I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star. ~ Maureen O'Hara

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn. ~ Coolio

Let me ask you both something. Is there anything strange that's been going on around the inn lately? I mean besides the murder and theft. ~ Tim Myers

The Admiral Fell Inn? It's the only hotel nearby that's a pun; of course you headed there. ~ Abigail Roux

The road to the inn is much better than the stay. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

They were the glory of their House. And now they are a sign above an inn. ~ George R.R. Martin

One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This§ is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity. ~ Billy Graham

It comes in pints? ~ Peter Jackson

I can get a table at the Inn Uendo. The maîtred' is missing a space, and I promised to give her one. ~ Jasper Fforde

For me life is an inn where I must stay until the carriage from the abyss calls to collect me [ ... ] I could consider this inn to be a prison, since I'm compelled to stay here; I could consider it a kind of club, because I meet other people here. However, unlike others, I am neither impatient nor sociable. I leave those who chatter in the living room, from where the cosy sound of music and voices reaches me. I sit at the door and fill my eyes and ears with the colours and sounds of the landscape and slowly, just for myself, I sing vague songs that I compose while I wait.
Night will fall on all of us and the carriage will arrive. I enjoy the breeze given to me and the soul given to me to enjoy it and I ask no more questions, look no further. If what I leave written in the visitors' book is one day read by others and entertains them on their journey, that's fine. If no one reads it or is entertained by it, that's fine too. ~ Fernando Pessoa

Nothing more alarming occurred than a fear, on Mrs. Allen's side, of having once left her clogs behind her at an inn, and that fortunately proved to be groundless. ~ Jane Austen

Shortly after his launch into eternity, Bonepenney's room at the inn is rifled by a maiden fair whose name I dare not utter aloud but who now sits demurely before me ... ~ Alan Bradley

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles. ~ Zelda Popkin

Into this world, this demented inn
in which there is absolutely no room for him at all,
Christ comes uninvited. ~ Thomas Merton

[Joseph] and the Virgin Mary got turned away from the inn and had to go sleep in the manger. (Not with the manager, like Troo says.) ~ Lesley Kagen

Which illness gives you stomach pains and a limp," Crier muttered, helping Ayla through the green door of the inn.
"A bad one," Ayla retorted. ~ Nina Varela

There was this cheap motel on the outskirts of town called the Tick-Tock Inn, with green-and-yellow vinyl curtains and beds that smelled like mothballs and ass. ~ Maris Black

Evangelism and the local church are inseparable. It's like the Good Samaritan seeking an inn for the one he rescued. ~ Reinhard Bonnke

And she brought forth her firstborn son, wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7 ~ Anonymous

The road is always better than the inn. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. - SAMUEL JOHNSON ~ Kingsley Amis

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. ~ Seneca The Younger

Every inn in the city is full, and the whores are walking bowlegged and jingling with each step. ~ George R R Martin

Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked? ~ William Shakespeare

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion
a form of knowledge without the power of it. ~ Joseph Addison

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well. ~ Victor Hugo

Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend;
The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end. ~ John Dryden

In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring. He lives all alone with his streaked cat in Gray's Inn, and people call him harmlessly mad. ~ H.P. Lovecraft

The journey is better than the inn". ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance. ~ Martha Grimes

She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had a powerful need to nurture. ~ Louise Penny

By holiday time, Buena Vista Street felt like Bedford Falls, with its vintage lights and decorations, and a classic Santa Claus listening to children's holiday wishes at Elias & Co. Cocoa clutching---Guests in scarves and parkas filled the streets and shops. ~ Leslie Le Mon

As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell. ~ Tiny Tim

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. ~ Thomas Browne

Do you always mix business and pleasure?" She flashed her most alluring smile.

"Miss Stockton, when you own an inn, your business is pleasure. ~ J.M. Maxim

I found my destination a few miles outside Swelling: a lone, squat, brown bar called The Inn of the Line...The place looked like a dive. Maybe even a plunge. Hell, it was a drowning accident. ~ Elliott James

He cradled her burning cheek and his rough fingers chafed. He radiated more heat than a bustling inn's kitchen - and his warmth was every bit as alluring. Comfort, his body promised. Care and sustenance. ~ Wendy LaCapra

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn. ~ Marcus Aurelius

May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Earth's nobility are soon forgotten. John Bunyan, the Bedford tinker, has outlived the whole crowd of those who were the nobility in his day. They lived for self, and their memory is blotted out. He lived for God and for souls, and his name is as fragrant as ever it was. ~ D.L. Moody

'The Irish Duke' is a sequel to 'The Decadent Duke' about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. 'The Irish Duke' tells the story of their daughter, Lady Louisa, who married James Hamilton, the powerful and wealthy Duke of Abercorn. ~ Virginia Henley

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. ~ William Shenstone

As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it may as well be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing. For my mind was made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous old island, which amazingly pleased me. Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolizing the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original - the Tyre of this Carthage; - the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan? And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones - so goes the story - to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit? ~ Herman Melville