Time Quote by Michael Oakeshott

“Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our…

— Michel de Montaigne

“In his time the City was made more fair than it had ever been, even in the days of its first glory; and it…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack…

— Donald Miller

“the concept of the city is significant in this period because the cities were considered to have developed for the gods.”

— Tammi J. Schneider

“All theology is rooted in geography.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“At first cautiously, later indifferently, at last desperately, I wandered up the stairs and along the pavement of the inextricable palace. (Afterwards I learned…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,…

— Ronald Wright

“Extermination of city could be prevented by presence of a few who have faith of God.”

— Toba Beta

“There is no such place as the promised land, but it would be foolish to reject even an unpromised land as worthless without first…

— Mary Balogh

“He looked up to the gods but never accepted their eternal superiority. For better or worse, plotting their overthrow was the only aspiration that…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.”

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea. And they in turn…

— Sten Nadolny