Cities Lie Quotes
- Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium… — Walter Benjamin
- From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals… — Winston Churchill
- Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. — Robinson Jeffers
- We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic… — Garrison Keillor
- The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. — Arnold J. Toynbee