Sister/friendship Cities
Kurashiki maintains the following sister/friendship cities.
- Sankt Pölten, Austria, September 29, 1957
- Kansas City, Missouri, United States since May 28, 1972
- Christchurch, New Zealand, March 7, 1973
- Zhenjiang, China, November 18, 1997
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Famous quotes containing the words sister, friendship and/or cities:
“England! awake! awake! awake!
Jerusalem thy sister calls!
Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death,
And close her from thy ancient walls?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
—Anonymous.
“Over the tree-tops I float thee a song,
Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the
prairies wide,
Over the dense-packed cities all and the teeming wharves and ways,
I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee, O death,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)