City of Memphis/tourism and Recreation

Famous quotes containing the words city of, city, tourism and/or recreation:

    Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
    Robert Runcie (b. 1921)

    Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor—because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.
    Angela Davis (b. 1944)