| Author |
Quotes |
| Anonymous | Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. |
| Bible | Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. |
| Bible | Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. |
| Dean John William Burgon | A rose-red city half as old as Time. |
| Euripides | The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. |
| Francois Rabelais | Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Even cities have their graves! |
| Homer | Far from gay cities, and the ways of men. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Every man cannot go to Corinthum. |
| John Masefield | Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Not for us are content, and quiet, and peace of mind, For we go seeking cities that we shall never find. |
| John Milton | Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. |
| John Milton | The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. |
| Motto | Unless the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh in vain. |
| Mrs Felicia D Hemans | In the busy haunts of men. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr | The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. |
| Plato | Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city. |
| Thomas Heywood | Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head. |
| Thomas Seward | Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame. |
| W J Prowse | I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot; . . . . Though the latitude's rather uncertain, And the longitude also is vague, The persons I pity who know not the City The beautiful City of Prague. |
| William Cowper | God made the country, and man made the town. |
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