City Destroyed

Famous quotes containing the words city and/or destroyed:

“Arrive at New Orleans, a city of ships, steamers, flatboats, rafts, mud, fog, filth, stench, and a mixture of races and tongues. Cholera, “some.” [At] Planters’ Hotel. Mem:—Never get caught in a cheap tavern in a strange city.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)