Famous quotes containing the words oak, city and/or days:
“Below me trees unnumbered rise,
Beautiful in various dyes:
The gloomy pine, the poplar blue,
The yellow beech, the sable yew,
The slender fir that taper grows,
The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.”
—John Dyer (1699–1758)
“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)