Places in The United States of America
- National City, California
- National City, Illinois
- National City, Michigan
- National City, Nevada, a ghost town now known as Bristol Wells
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Famous quotes containing the words places, united, states and/or america:
“All places are alike,
And every earth is fit for burial.”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“The United States is a republic, and a republic is a state in which the people are the boss. That means us. And if the big shots in Washington don’t do like we vote, we don’t vote for them, by golly, no more.”
—Willis Goldbeck (1900–1979)
“Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
—Anonymous.
An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)