Famous quotes containing the words bad, twin, towns, sister and/or cities:
“If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“That Dali is really Norman Rockwell’s twin brother kidnapped by gypsies in babyhood.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“In the towns I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways—”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“England! awake! awake! awake!
Jerusalem thy sister calls!
Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death,
And close her from thy ancient walls?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Over the tree-tops I float thee a song,
Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the
prairies wide,
Over the dense-packed cities all and the teeming wharves and ways,
I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee, O death,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)