The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements:… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of… — Paul Gray Copy Share Image
Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely… — James Keller Copy Share Image
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said “our world.” He always said “your world.”… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century—or the twentieth or nineteenth, for that matter. It was… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South… — Mirra Alfassa Copy Share Image
No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The toughest part for me is the city - the people. They've got burgers named after me in Orlando, they've got a… — Dwight Howard Copy Share Image
I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament… — John Bright Copy Share Image
[Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
I never, in any city I've ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image