Famous quotes containing the word town:
“I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“He builds a big town with his mouth, but not even a flys nest with his hands.”
—Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)