City National High

Famous quotes containing the words city, national and/or high:

    “The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

    “America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.”
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)

    “I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,
    And not in paths of high morality,
    And not among the half-distinguished faces,
    The clouded forms of long-past history.”
    —Emily Brontë (1818–1848)