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"The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men." »Homer
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"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." »Caesar Augustus
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"It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living." »Andrew Schneider
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"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." »Frank Zappa
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"Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the city of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the city of God." »Saint Augustine
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"Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach." »Hal
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"When you come to a road block, take a detour." »Mary Kay Ash
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"A book tightly shut is but a block of paper." »Chinese Proverb
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"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic." »Arnold Bennett
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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." »Joseph Addison
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"The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity." »Lewis Grizzard
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"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts." »Eugene H. Spafford
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"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost." »Martha Graham
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"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost." »Martha Graham
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"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to." »Paul Valery
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"A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood." »Chinese Proverb
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"The city is the teacher of the man." »Simondes of Ceos
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"We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block." »John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002
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"To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all." »Spiro Agnew
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"The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block." »Inigo DeLeon
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"Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time, Each form is exquisite, each block sublime. Or good, or bad,-disfigur'd, or deprav'd,- All art, is at its resurrection sav'd All crown'd with glory in the critic's heav'n, Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven." »Sir Martin Archer Shee
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"In New York city, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans." »Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one." »Aristotle
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"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo." »Desmond Morris
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"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man." »Hesiod
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"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow
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"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas city in order to be unhappy." »Groucho Marx
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"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city." »Anne Michaels
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