Famous quotes containing the words city of, city, vice, bow, street and/or game:
“From Washington, proverbially “the city of distances,” through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“And they lie like wedges,
Thick end to thin end and thin end to thick end,
And are a figure of the way the strong
Of mind and strong of arm should fit together,
One thick where one is thin and vice versa.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“...I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 3:14-15.
“If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The street is as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)