Famous quotes containing the words twin, towns, sister and/or cities:
“If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth if th other do.”
—John Donne (15721631)
“Here reign the simplicity and purity of a primitive age, and a health and hope far remote from towns and cities.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Evelyn Mulwray: Shes my daughter.
J.J. Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: Shes my sister. Shes my daughter. My sister, my daughter.
J.J. Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: Shes my sister and my daughter!”
—Robert Towne (b. 1936)
“Satire is born of the cities it denounces.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)