National Bank Building

Famous quotes containing the words national, bank and/or building:

“Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.”
—Paul West (b. 1930)

“What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)

“And of the other things death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)