Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The Heavenly City already exists and the departed Saints are already there! — David Berg Copy Share Image
“Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“With its population made up of two categories of people, those who do business and those upon whom they prey, the city… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
About strip clubs and athletes. The best way I can explain why a lot of players end up there is because it's… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing… — Eugene Levy Copy Share Image
We need this city to actually live up to its name-The City of Angels. We need to spread our wings. We need… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city-except for bombing. — Assar Lindbeck Copy Share Image
Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa… — Ethan Zuckerman 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
When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the… — Plato Copy Share Image
The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months? — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it. — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I… — Danny Brown Copy Share Image
I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately… — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
(with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is,… — Russell Chatham Copy Share Image
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to… — Chris Paul Copy Share Image
New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets. — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off. — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
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