Towers

Famous quotes containing the word towers:

“Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

“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)

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