Famous quotes containing the words city, life and/or social:
“This city is neither a jungle nor the moon.... In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies. Close up, it is a fairly legible printed circuit, a transistorized labyrinth of beastly tracks, a data bank for asthmatic voice-prints.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“Such was life in the Golden Gate:
Gold dusted all we drank and ate,
And I was one of the children told,
We all must eat our peck of gold.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)