The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
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All great art is born of the Metropolis.
Love of money is the mother-city (Metropolis) of all evils.
bion of borysthenesYou can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt Metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.
robert mosesBut what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the Metropolis of the empire"?
william cobbettParasnath, a mountain in Bihar of great sanctity; it is the eastern, as Mount Abu is the western Metropolis of Jain worship and pilgrimage. Ten thousand, annually, from distant parts of India, visit the scene of Nirvana or beatific annihilation of the ten of the 24 deified saints or Thirthankars, who are the objects of Jain adoration; and from the last of these, Parswa or Parswanatha, the hill originally called samet Sikhar took its better known name as Parasnath.
Subodh KapoorThe capitalists of a country which manages to capture foreign markets from other countries are able to increase their profits at the expense of the capitalists of the other countries. Similarly, a colonial Metropolis may achieve an export surplus through investment in its dependencies.
Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green Metropolis.
william allinghamLove of money is the mother-city ( Metropolis ) of all evils.
I think every gentleman on this floor is as well satisfied as I am that Duluth is destined to become the commercial Metropolis of the universe, and that this road should be built at once.
j(ames) proctor knott