The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang… — Shusaku Endo Copy Share Image
On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day. — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period. — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
I'd love to come to Middle Earth! Apparently Auckland is an amazing city, one of the best to live in too. — Coeur de pirate Copy Share Image
Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
However, obviously Israel is a much smaller place in terms of population. There are only 6 million people in Israel, where there… — Meital Dohan Copy Share Image
It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
For us the Dresden Dolls were porcelain dolls that were made in that city at the time, that is what they were… — Brian Viglione Copy Share Image
I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can… — Rose George Copy Share Image
The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary,… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
What has happened in the last generation is that Tijuana has become a new Third World capital - much to the chagrin… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
And yes,Percy,of course they are now in our United States. Look at your symbol,the eagle of Zeus. Look at the statue of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their minds on… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I'm going to help the African-Americans. I'm going to help the Latinos, Hispanics. I am going to help the inner cities. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later,… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school. — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City. — Kim Dickens Copy Share Image
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above. — Will Self Copy Share Image
If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed. — Mick Cornett Copy Share Image
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island,… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
