He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing. — Jack White Copy Share Image
It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people,… — Kevin Garnett Copy Share Image
“If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
Sanctuary cities are a lot like hitchhiking. And the abstract, it feels really good until you feel dead. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
I had been asked to open a nightclub in Atlantic City. They offered me a ridiculous amount of money. They literally overpaid… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't… — Josh Earnest Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure — Ross MacDonald Copy Share Image
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
While it may be difficult to understand why cities and even entire states would doom themselves to insolvency by undertaking these obligations,… — Devin Nunes Copy Share Image
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there. After that, it's debatable. — Jim Ross Copy Share Image
All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views.… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
If you sit around and wring your hands as they're all doing now until something happens to a major American city, then… — James Inhofe Copy Share Image
"From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion… — Nesta Helen Webster Copy Share Image
Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom.… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
When you go to Detroit you see a town that is resilient, that's just fighting to win again, and there's an energy… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it! — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
![“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio…” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/59e/pete-seeger-1942_actors_he-alan-lomax-started-right-off-trying-t_1712245.jpg)
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