I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music. — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Happy Cinco de Mayo. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, mayor Bill de Blasio is filling all New York City potholes with… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I'm a city girl and I never really lived in the country, so I'm learning about that. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood… — Kerry King Copy Share Image
In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Every time I'm in a foreign place and a different city, I'm always asking around to say, OK, well, what's special here… — DJ /rupture Copy Share Image
We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the… — Karl Donitz Copy Share Image
My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca,… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Had a dog. I had many. I grew up in rural Washington before I moved to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and… — Justin Kirk Copy Share Image
Chicago is a beautiful city. It's one of those places that people around the world see and say, 'Maybe one day.' There's… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The Houston Contractors Association is proud to endorse Council Member Oliver Pennington for re-election to Houston City Council. Council Member Pennington understands… — Jeffrey Nielsen Copy Share Image
In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in… — John Banville Copy Share Image
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments. — Bob Goodlatte Copy Share Image
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government. — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Once arrived in the City, he dispersed utterly and gratefully in it like a raindrop fallen into the sea.” — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views. — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
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