The Lost City of Sand

Famous quotes containing the words lost, city and/or sand:

    “In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    “Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    “She had more sand in her than any girl I ever see: in my opinion she was just full of sand. It sounds like flattery, but it ain’t no flattery.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)