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"Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter." »Henry Anatole Grunwald
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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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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." »Oscar Levant
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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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"There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts." »Christine Lavin
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"It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous." »Andy Warhol
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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller
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"The city is the teacher of the man." »Simondes of Ceos
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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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"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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"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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"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man." »Hesiod
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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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"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas city in order to be unhappy." »Groucho Marx
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"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow
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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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"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." »Mark Twain
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"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." »Doug Larson
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"New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian." »Russell Baker
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"Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John F. Kennedy
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"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition." »Alan Alda
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"The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on." »Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems (1916) "Fog"
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"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." »Bible, Proverbs, XLI, 32
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