Trade Center Towers

Famous quotes containing the words trade, center and/or towers:

“And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand—a center of gravity.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

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