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)

    “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)