City Kings Acquired

Famous quotes containing the words city, kings and/or acquired:

    New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
    Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)

    All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they’re a mighty ornery lot. It’s the way they’re raised.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though it were only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)