Statues to Sit Beside

 Found on Facebook.

Kipling statue in Burwash village, East Sussex, UK. 

Churchill By Pousada and Historic Hotel, Madeira, Portuguese island.

Seated statues of Oscar Wilde and Estonian writer Edouard Vilde, outside restaurant, in Estonia.

Homes of the famous on your top ten wishlist: 1 Edison

Robbie Burns, Ayr, Scotland.

Problem
Where can I see the homes of some inspirational people? Who should I choose?

Answer
Who do I quote most often? My top ten famous people list includes:

(In alphabetical order)
Robbie Burns 'For the sake of auld lang syne'
Winston Churchill 'We shall never surrender.'
Thomas Edison 'I did not fail 1000 times. I found 999 ways not to do it.'
Benjamin Franklin 'A place for everything and everything in its place.'
Sigmund Freud 'Time spent with cats is never wasted.'
Helen Keller 'Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.'
Rudyard Kipling 'If you can fill the unforgiving minute ...'
Abraham Lincoln 'If this is coffee, bring me tea, but if this is tea, bring me coffee.'
William Shakespeare 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be'
Noah Webster 'Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work of generations ...'

Of course, there are many more. Dylan Thomas in Wales. Every country has somebody famous.

Useful Websites
Britain
visitbritain.com
visitscotland.com

Edison:
http://www.menloparkmuseum.org
visit-usa.com

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I have several posts on homes of famous people in the UK and Europe and Worldwide including Israel and Romania.

Time quotations

Today the clocks went back.

Quotations on time listed in alphabetical order:

A stitch in time saves nine.

A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday
Bible

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
Kipling poem If

Give me one minute more
Song
Give me five minutes more
Song by Frank Sinatra

Hickory, dickory, dock
The mouse ran up the clock
(Nursery rhyme)

How did it get so late so soon ...
Dr Seuss

Now is the hour
(Song)

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
Poem Funeral Blues by W H Auden

There is a tide in the affairs of men which if taken at the flood leads on to victory.
William Shakespeare 1564-1616

Time and tide wait for no man.

Time heals all wounds.

Time is everything. Five minutes makes the difference between victory and defeat. (Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805), won the Battle of Trafalgar but died on his ship the Victory. Also said England expects every man to do his duty.)

Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin

Time you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan, just for one day.
Ralph Hodgson (9 September 1871 – 3 November 1962 - see article in Wikipedia.)

A modern Greek proverb, 'Man raises but time weighs', is inscribed in the USA on the Thomas Jefferson building, Library of Congress, Washington DC.

Quotations are inscribed above eye level on a frieze around the outside of Bluewater giant shopping mall in the UK.

For more quotations online see brainy quote

GREENWICH MEAN TIME VISIT, LONDON

Greenwich Park, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF

Find the time line and be photograph astride it.

In Belgium there is a sculpture of time.