Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides… — William Vickrey 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
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
Overwhelm, panic, and wanting to flee were states of being in my everyday life as I tried to figure out life on… — Wendy C. Ortiz Copy Share Image
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times. — Jack Irons Copy Share Image
I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
BMX riding breaks down racial perceptions. Coming from New York City and being a BMX rider, that isn't something that's too common.… — Nigel Sylvester Copy Share Image
I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am really enthusiastic about my new council position because part of my satisfaction in life is feeling like I have done… — Barbara Lewis Copy Share Image
Here in New York City, it's cold. It's so cold the Republicans want to use the Keystone Pipeline to deliver soup. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
We have in effect renounced our Worldly citizenship when we receive the King of Kings and the Prince of Peace, Lord of… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I like to compare the first experiences of the Internet - the fortuitousness, the chance - with reality, with the experience, for… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
I grew up in California. I was outside of the city, not directly in it. So I did have an experience of… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life — Aristotle Copy Share Image
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities. — Joseph Rykwert Copy Share Image
Seek refuge in Mary because she is the city of refuge. We know that Moses set up three cities of refuge for… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a… — Anne Robinson Copy Share Image
A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was… — Dean Norris 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
An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the… — Howard Cosell Copy Share Image
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere. — Willie Stargell Copy Share Image
Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
