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.

    “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)