As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that New Orleans, when rebuilt, will be a chocolate city. And he will be the delicious… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Mao challenged the idea that economic planning would dissolve conflicts of interest among the people. He saw it dialectically - conflicts between… — Harry Magdoff Copy Share Image
Walk around the right corner in Sin City and you can find anything you want. — Rob Ford Copy Share Image
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The counties with the highest per capita income aren't near New York City or Los Angeles - they're in the Washington, D.C.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams,… — Jim Evans Copy Share Image
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live. — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
There are a few societies that show signs of having been very rational about the physics of construction and the physics of… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
I'm a country boy who hasn't really been exposed to city living, and it throws me. — Randy Moss Copy Share Image
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
