Sister Cities and Twin Towns
- Edogawa, Tokyo
- Nitra
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Famous quotes containing the words sister, cities, twin and/or towns:
“Sister Bernice: I have looked everywhere. In all of the usual places.
Mother Abbess: Sister Bernice, considering that its Maria, I would suggest you look in some place unusual.”
—Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)
“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.”
—John Ruskin (18191900)
“That Dali is really Norman Rockwells twin brother kidnapped by gypsies in babyhood.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man, robs him of his strength, wit, and versatility, to make a pin- polisher, and buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently, in a change of industry, whole towns are sacrificed like ant-hills, when cotton takes the place of linen, or railways of turnpikes, or when commons are inclosed by landlords.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)