City Churches

Famous quotes containing the words city and/or churches:

    “O City city, I can sometimes hear
    Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street,
    The pleasant whining of a mandolin
    And a clatter and a chatter from within
    Where fishmen lounge at noon.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Universities are, of course, hostile to geniuses, which seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)