Louisiana taught me another level of humility. Everyone is so content, not socially content but spiritually. Everyone is happy with who they… — Kofi Siriboe Copy Share Image
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You will always go into that tent. You will see her scar and wonder where she got it. You will always be… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor… — Carl Bernstein 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
The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am delighted to be here in these new [Council on Foreign Relations] headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying, with bad… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may… — Caryll Houselander 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
Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to acting school with Mario Van Peebles. For a little while, he was at the same school. So he asked… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
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If we're not there making the argument then the cultural gulf that Republicans try to exploit saying, "Ah, these city slickers: they're… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble,… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
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Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Before we go there and set up greenhouses, dance clubs, and falafel stands, let's make sure that, in some subtle form that… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot… — Westbrook Pegler Copy Share Image
Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the… — John Guare Copy Share Image