Famous quotes containing the words stephens and/or city:
“Crouching down where nothing stirs
In the silence of the furze,
Crouching down again to brood
In the sunny solitude.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)
“I don’t like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meaner than I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)