Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a… — Jeff Belanger Copy Share Image
The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy,… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's… — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone,… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
The giant neon spinning discs are a reminder of the huge role that Sam Sniderman and his store played in the cultural… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time how I got hired onto the Office. Another common question is how do I manage to… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of… — Chokwe Lumumba Copy Share Image
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