City/origins

Famous quotes containing the words city and/or origins:

    “New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.”
    —Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)

    “Lucretius
    Sings his great theory of natural origins and of wise conduct; Plato
    smiling carves dreams, bright cells
    Of incorruptible wax to hive the Greek honey.”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)