Famous quotes containing the words port and/or cities:
“It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Satire is born of the cities it denounces.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)