Famous quotes containing the words lost, city and/or sand:
“Your love by ours we measure
Till we have lost our treasure,
But dying is a pleasure,
When living is a pain.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician—these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.”
—Polly Adler (1900–1962)
“I look back at it amid the rain
For the very last time; for my sand is sinking,
And I shall traverse old love’s domain
Never again.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)