City Councils

Famous quotes containing the words city and/or councils:

    “What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician—these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.”
    —Polly Adler (1900–1962)

    “How many councils and decrees
    Have perished in the simple prayer
    That gave obedience to the knee;”
    —Austin Clarke (1896–1974)