Famous quotes containing the words mexico, city and/or proper:
“Is this what all these soldiers, all this training, have been for these seventy-nine years past? Have they been trained merely to rob Mexico and carry back fugitive slaves to their masters?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.”
—Rose Wilder Lane (18861965)
“Not German, I beg your majesty. Italian is the proper language for opera. All educated people agree on that.”
—Peter Shaffer (b. 1926)
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