Famous quotes containing the words shock and/or city:
“There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”
—F.H. (Francis Herbert)
“I am not aware that any man has ever built on the spot which I occupy. Deliver me from a city built on the site of a more ancient city, whose materials are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries. The soil is blanched and accursed there, and before that becomes necessary the earth itself will be destroyed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)