A Quote by Katharine Lee Bates

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

Katharine Lee Bates

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Begging Habit Hill Incessant Nuisance Plague Resorts Tourist

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Katharine Lee Bates
American - Author
August 12, 1859 - March 28, 1929

If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

Dilip Kumar

Every day we'd trudge up the hill - it was a three-quarter-mile walk up this steep hill to the Leach Pottery, and we would take our lunch with us and generally, I guess, make a nuisance of ourselves.

Warren MacKenzie

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

Patrick F. McManus

The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.

Boyd K. Packer

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.

Michael Franti

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

Karen White

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right. And all we're asking for is an opportunity to do something for ourselves, rather than to sit around as a beggar, begging for jobs and begging for education from - for someone else for the rest of our lives.

Malcolm X

Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Stephen Covey

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

Paul Theroux

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

Russell Baker

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