We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis,… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
My first album was called Seven Waves, and was directly inspired by the ocean, and the ocean has been a leitmotif in… — Suzanne Ciani Copy Share Image
A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I know what it’s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it’s like to be in danger. While your city… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I don't really get involved in it, the whole thing. I understand how important this city is and what I mean to… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
Being a resident of the city and spending most of my time in the city, I've always been perplexed with how people… — Brian Boyle Copy Share Image
Toward the end of the campaign, we interviewed some voters in Raleigh, N.C., which is a generally Democratic city, and I'm thinking… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago,… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it,… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly… — Christos Tsiolkas Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval,… — Nicholas Pileggi Copy Share Image
A few suits of clothes, some money in the bank, and a new kind of fear constitute the main differences between the… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City)… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that… — Steve Burns Copy Share Image
The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
If I deny the existence of a God - if I deny the idea of a gold paved city with pearly walls… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
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I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
We've ordered a crackdown on sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal law and that harbor criminal aliens and we've ordered… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
I went to the beach a couple of times in New York City. Tough summer out there, but I was pretty excited.… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the… — Moby Copy Share Image
Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
![“[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's…” quote by Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/bf1/junot-diaz-531_burn-out_immigrating-didn-t-burn-out-my-desire-to_847497.jpg)
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