On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through… — Mel Smith Copy Share Image
Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There’s no Democratic way to run a city and there’s no Republican way to run a city -- just the right way… — Buddy Cianci Copy Share Image
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I enjoyed living in New York City, I liked the premise of the show [Saturday Night Live], I liked working with a… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little… — Anna Gunn Copy Share Image
Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter the numbers, it doesn't matter the records, it doesn't matter the money that you make. What matters is to… — Albert Pujols Copy Share Image
I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a… — Will Arnett 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
A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try… — Rachel Trachtenburg Copy Share Image
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I grew up in church and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and… — Shane Harper Copy Share Image
I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The beauty of any city is really the people within it and the people that you're close to. — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency. — Mathis Wackernagel Copy Share Image
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don't grasp the fact that what is most… — Kabir Copy Share Image
There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is… — Robin Hayes Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I just started playing around different clubs, and I got a good reputation around New York City of having good timing, a… — Carmine Appice Copy Share Image
Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were… — O. Henry Copy Share Image