The Lost City of Sand

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

    Was I in here last night and did I spend a twenty dollar bill? What a load that is off my mind! I thought I’d lost it!
    Mahatma Kane Jeeves, U.S. screenwriter, and Eddie Cline. Egbert Sousé (W.C. Fields)

    I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.
    Frances Wright (1795–1852)

    The desert encroaches on the garden. No matter. Sand will do as well as flowers.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)