City of York

Famous quotes containing the words city of, city and/or york:

    The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.
    Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.
    —Advertisement. Poster in a school near Irving Place, New York City (1983)

    New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world’s greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
    Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)