City Air Defense

Famous quotes containing the words city, air and/or defense:

    “Overcome the Empyrean; hurl
    Heaven and Earth out of their places,
    That in the same calamity
    Brother and brother, friend and friend,
    Family and family,
    City and city may contend.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Nor sequent centuries could hit
    Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE’s wit.
    The men who lived with him became
    Poets, for the air was fame.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)