Greater Manchester Urban

Famous quotes containing the words greater, manchester and/or urban:

    “I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
    Although thou steal thee all my poverty;
    And yet love knows, it is a greater grief
    To bear love’s wrong, than hate’s known injury.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “I have misplaced the Van Allen belt
    the sewers and the drainage,
    the urban renewal and the suburban centers.
    I have forgotten the names of the literary critics.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)