The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined… — Strabo Copy Share Image
The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows staring on seas of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do is to turn over your life to a political party that simply is going to use… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they'd practically hand you… — Smoky Joe Wood Copy Share Image
There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city,… — Kwame Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's… — Bernard Fanning Copy Share Image
Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have… — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
After the occupation of Paris, Hitler visited Paris, which of course was a great jewel for him, and he wanted to go… — Joe Harris Copy Share Image
In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?" "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love?… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
But the most horrible spot … lies…immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
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Toward the end of the campaign, we interviewed some voters in Raleigh, N.C., which is a generally Democratic city, and I'm thinking… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago,… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I know what it’s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it’s like to be in danger. While your city… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I don't really get involved in it, the whole thing. I understand how important this city is and what I mean to… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
I thought of New York as a free city, like one of those prewar nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been;… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This is critical to the region. Every other major city has public transportation going downtown. We have a world-class airport now, and… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
![“[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's…” quote by Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf1/junot-diaz-531_burn-out_immigrating-didn-t-burn-out-my-desire-to_847497.jpg)
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