Famous quotes containing the words lost, city and/or sand:
“But, first a hush of peacea soundless calm descends;
The struggle of distress, and fierce impatience ends;
Mute music soothes my breastunuttered harmony,
That I could never dream, till Earth was lost to me.”
—Emily Brontë (18181848)
“I come from the city of Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,”
—John Collins Bossidy (18601928)
“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 aint no flattery.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)