Towers

Famous quotes containing the word towers:

“Great towers take time to construct.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“The sardonic funeral towers of metropolitan finance.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)