Fastest Growing City

Famous quotes containing the words fastest, growing and/or city:

    “The fastest foot climbs to the top first.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “O if we but knew what we do
    When we delve or hew—
    Hack and rack the growing green!
    Since country is so tender
    To touch, her being so slender,
    That, like this sleek and seeing ball
    But a prick will make no eye at all,
    Where we, even where we mean
    To mend her we end her,
    When we hew or delve:
    After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)