The Lost City of Sand

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

    “I sing what was lost and dread what was won,
    I walk in a battle fought over again,
    My king a lost king, and lost soldiers my men....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “A wholly materialistic city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world’s unconscious, a miser’s glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.”
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    “God gave Solomon very great wisdom, discernment, and breadth of understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore...”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 4:29.