City Lands Committee

Famous quotes containing the words city, lands and/or committee:

“When the city gate catches fire, it’s the fish in the moat who suffer.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.”
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993)