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)

    half-way up the hill, I see the Past
    Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights,—
    A city in the twilight dim and vast,
    With smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights,—
    And hear above me on the autumnal blast
    The cataract of Death far thundering from the heights.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)