Fastest Growing City

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

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

    “For it’s home, dearie, home—it’s home I want to be.
    Our topsails are hoisted, and we’ll away to sea.
    O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
    They’re all growing green in the old countrie.”
    —William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

    “What life is best?
    Courts are but only superficial schools
    To dandle fools:
    The rural parts are turned into a den
    Of savage men:
    And where ‘s a city from all vice so free,
    But may be termed the worst of all the three?”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)