This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.
Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.
The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.
The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?
By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.
The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.
So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew me here. ” “What? Like a plastic bag?” “I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.
Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.
Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.
The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.
A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb; By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd, Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.
All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.
'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.
