Famous quotes containing the words lost, city and/or sand:
“Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Arrive at New Orleans, a city of ships, steamers, flatboats, rafts, mud, fog, filth, stench, and a mixture of races and tongues. Cholera, some. [At] Planters Hotel. Mem:Never get caught in a cheap tavern in a strange city.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“I look back at it amid the rain
For the very last time; for my sand is sinking,
And I shall traverse old loves domain
Never again.”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)