Small City Franchise

Famous quotes containing the words small, city and/or franchise:

    “These are the small townsmen of death,
    A man and a woman, like two leaves
    That keep clinging to a tree,
    Before winter freezes and grows black....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.”
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    “To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise ...”
    —Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)