Mexico City Proper

Famous quotes containing the words mexico, city and/or proper:

“I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: “Here,” he said, “are the walls of the city,” meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)