Famous quotes containing the words city and/or received:
“Youve been trying to keep an honest accounting of city monies. Youve been dealing with politicians. Youve been standing up for your own rights, havent you? Naturally you landed in jail.”
—Dalton Trumbo (19051976)
“He could walk, or rather turn about in his little garden, and feel more solid happiness from the flourishing of a cabbage or the growing of a turnip than was ever received from the most ostentatious show the vanity of man could possibly invent. He could delight himself with thinking, Here will I set such a root, because my Camilla likes it; here, such another, because it is my little Davids favorite.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)
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