Famous quotes containing the words lost, city and/or sand:
“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hours talk. You never see the people again, but the lingering sense of their presence in the world is like the glow of an unseen city at nightmakes you feel the teemingness of it all.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“She had more sand in her than any girl I ever see: in my opinion she was just full of sand. It sounds like flattery, but it aint no flattery.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)