Quotations About / On: CITY

  • 41.
    Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
    (Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Up at a Villa—Down in the City (l. 65). . . The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin.)
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  • 42.
    Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
    (Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.), Greek didactic poet. Works and Days, 240.)
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  • 43.
    He is himself alone,
    To answer all the city.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. 1st Soldier, in Coriolanus, act 1, sc. 4, l. 51-2. On Caius Marcius, who has fought his way alone into the city of Corioli.)
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  • 44.
    God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
    (Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), British essayist, poet. The Garden, Essays in Verse and Prose (1668).)
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  • 45.
    Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
    (Martin Oppenheimer (b. 1930), German-born U.S. sociologist. Urban Guerrilla, ch. 7 (1969).)
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  • 46.
    Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
    (John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), U.S. Democratic politician, president. remark, Nov. 1961. Quoted in Portrait of a President, William Manchester (1962).)
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  • 47.
    This is the Key of the Kingdom:
    In that Kingdom is a city;
    (Unknown. This Is the Key (l. 1-2). . . Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 48.
    Struck in the wet mire
    Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city
    I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.
    (Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Aeneas at Washington.")
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  • 49.
    If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Swedenborg; or, the Mystic," Representative Men (1850).)
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  • 50.
    I hear as good exclamation on your worship as of any man in the city.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Dogberry, in Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, sc. 5, l. 25-6. Mistaking the word, as usual: "exclamation" means outcry against; he perhaps means "acclamation" in speaking to Leonato, governor of Messina.)
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