Joined City Country

Famous quotes containing the words joined, city and/or country:

    “You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.”
    —O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862–1910)

    “Overcome the Empyrean; hurl
    Heaven and Earth out of their places,
    That in the same calamity
    Brother and brother, friend and friend,
    Family and family,
    City and city may contend.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “A house in the country is not the same as a country house.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)