City Hall Building

Famous quotes containing the words city, hall and/or building:

    “Overcome the Empyrean; hurl
    Heaven and Earth out of their places,
    That in the same calamity
    Brother and brother, friend and friend,
    Family and family,
    City and city may contend.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “A cell for prayer, a hall for joy,—
    They treated nature as they would.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Notice how he has numbered the blue veins
    in my breast. Moreover there are ten freckles.
    Now he goes left. Now he goes right.
    He is building a city, a city of flesh.
    He’s an industrialist.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)