Famous quotes containing the words group, iii and/or state:
“He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The worlds second metropolis. In the brick houses and the dingy lamplight and the voices of a group of boys kidding and quarreling on the steps of a house opposite, in the regular firm tread of a policeman, he felt a marching like soldiers, like a sidewheeler going up the Hudson under the Palisades, like an election parade, through long streets towards something tall white full of colonnades and stately. Metropolis.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (18081873)
“The Australian mind, I can state with authority, is easily boggled.”
—Charles Osborne (b. 1927)
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