City/origins

Famous quotes containing the words city and/or origins:

    “When the city gate catches fire, it’s the fish in the moat who suffer.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Grown onto every inch of plate, except
    Where the hinges let it move, were living things,
    Barnacles, mussels, water weeds—and one
    Blue bit of polished glass, glued there by time:
    The origins of art.”
    —Howard Moss (b. 1922)