Famous quotes containing the words lost, city and/or sand:
“Jewels being lost are found againe, this never,
T’is lost but once, and once lost, lost for ever.”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)