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)

    “Britannia needs no bulwarks,
    No towers along the steep;
    Her march is o’er the mountain-waves,
    Her home is on the deep.”
    —Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)

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