City Kingdoms

Famous quotes containing the words city and/or kingdoms:

    He bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend to the wind. He represents continuous hard labor, year in, year out, and small gains. He is a slow person, timed to Nature, and not to city watches. He takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry. Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
    Violet Trefusis (1894–1972)