Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.
Quotes about westminster (16 Quotes)
There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.
The Crusader girls and boys have done wonderful things, and this trip to the state meet is the compilation of a year of breaking new ground in track and athletics at Westminster Christian Academy.
We won't be looking past Catholic to Westminster or anything like that. Monday is what we are looking for.
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.
In the battle off Cape St. Vincent, Nelson gave orders for boarding the 'San Josef,' exclaiming 'Westminster Abbey, or victory'
In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock (Westminster Chimes) will hear the tune over a million times.
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.
I go to see my kids in school plays, ... I watched Lorna in a concert at the Westminster College of Music the other day and it was amazing. I felt very proud and surprised. I don't know why I was surprised, because I've known her for 17 years, but I've never seen her do anything like that in front of an audience. It's brave, it's uplifting.
Westminster Abbey and St Paul's, the two principal theatres of the Church of England, had competed to stage Olivier's positively final appearance. Richard thought his father would have been tickled pink.
Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947 TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT BADEN-POWELL CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD 1857-1941 Upon one side of the stone was the badge of the Boy Scouts, the arrow-head to point the true way as it had pointed the way for sailors and navigators from the time of the earliest maps and on the other the badge of the Girl Guides-the three-leafed clover.
I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminster Abbey.