City/origins

Famous quotes containing the words city and/or origins:

    “Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.”
    —Martin Oppenheimer (b. 1930)

    “The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: “Look what I killed. Aren’t I the best?””
    —Katharine Hamnett (b. 1948)