Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain; enough in a gram of flesh to run the city of Chicago for… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
My favorite thing of all time is a New York City when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our message will be that we're going to make federal government buildings a model - an energy-efficient model - and also start… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens… — Aaron Karo Copy Share Image
It is more a mentality than the actual places people live, as Jefferson and Hamilton would argue about - city versus country.… — Gail Collins 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
The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
When I walk, I try to set a fairly brisk rate. I love walking outside. I hate machines like treadmills. The path… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city. — Plato Copy Share Image
If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I… — Maria Schell Copy Share Image
Although his playing career with the Broncos took place before my time with the team, I am well aware of what Floyd… — Pat Bowlen Copy Share Image
You look at the inner cities and you see bad education, no jobs, no safety. You walk to the grocery store with… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Overnight, the city managed to procure thousands of cardboard boxes, fifteen hundred hard hats, a few thousand rolls of packing tape, and… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity… — John Green Copy Share Image
India offers exciting business opportunities owing to the growth in corporate travel and a significant middle-class population waiting to explore the world.… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his… — Charles Abrams Copy Share Image
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