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.

    “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)