Place Names

Famous quotes containing the words place and/or names:

“He was buried in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor, but no one knows his burial place to this day.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 34:6.

“The instincts of merry England lingered on here with exceptional vitality, and the symbolic customs which tradition has attached to each season of the year were yet a reality on Egdon. Indeed, the impulses of all such outlandish hamlets are pagan still: in these spots homage to nature, self-adoration, frantic gaieties, fragments of Teutonic rites to divinities whose names are forgotten, seem in some way or other to have survived mediaeval doctrine.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)