My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills -… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
That's where peace begins - not just in the plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people. Not just in some… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
I typically get around to most major cities at least once a year. I think people see that as their chance to… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
New York is a different breed than any other city there is. Media can be very hard on you at times, but… — John Starks Copy Share Image
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble,… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
“She'd first seen Covent Garden after a heavy snow, walking with her hand in Win's, and she remembers the secret silence of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
If we're not there making the argument then the cultural gulf that Republicans try to exploit saying, "Ah, these city slickers: they're… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for… — Hazel McCallion Copy Share Image
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant,… — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's… — Suge Knight Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life… — Aleksa Palladino Copy Share Image
[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Paris is my favorite city in the world. The men are so beyond gorgeous, especially the humpy Arab men. But I could… — Vaginal Davis Copy Share Image
My association with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is sort of predated by an effort that we were a part of here… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
“I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the… — Ron Francis Copy Share Image
Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two… — Al McGuire Copy Share Image
I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City… — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling… — Brad Furman Copy Share Image
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