“Hong Kong is one of the world's great cities, a synthesis of British power, Scottish mercantile drive and Chinese intelligence, ingenuity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
It is a tough city to live in (Detroit) but a great city to be around. There is so much promise. There… — MC Serch Copy Share Image
They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think that some of the most amazing places to be or to grow up are the places right outside of great… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Some remain great cities, but they shouldn't stand still. They should move in the direction of a knowledge-oriented society. Most cities have… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
After 9/11, I was like many people in New York City and got a little depressed. I began to check myself into… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I miss Seattle a lot. It was my first city that I lived in on my own. It was a great city… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Some people don't have an open mind, and when I was traveling to different places I think I found it hard to… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on… — Richard M. Daley Copy Share Image
Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image