City Gates

Famous quotes containing the words city gates, city and/or gates:

    Follow good people and you will learn to be good; follow beggars and you will sleep outside the city gates.
    Chinese proverb.

    ... city areas with flourishing diversity sprout strange and unpredictable uses and peculiar scenes. But this is not a drawback of diversity. This is the point ... of it.
    Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)

    We set this nation up ... to vindicate the rights of man. We did not name any differences between one race and another. We opened our gates to all the world and said: “Let all men who want to be free come to us and they will be welcome.”
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)