Famous quotes containing the words medieval, city and/or gate:
“The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge.... The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (18251895)
“A city on th inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“A young child is no longer simply a child; he or she is a preschooler, poised at the starting gate in the race of life.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)