Joined City Country

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

    “Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscience is the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it—an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.”
    —Peter Conrad (b. 1948)

    “That is no country for old men. The young
    In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
    MThose dying generations—at their song,”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)