Cities Quote by Alexander McCall Smith Download Open image “Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.” — Alexander McCall Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities City Edinburgh Haughty Used
Edinburgh is good craic. A romantic and beautiful city, it's one those places that makes me smile when I think about it - there… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate enough to travel to Edinburgh a few times over the last few years, and I just loved the city. I find… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and each district… — Joan Lingard Copy Share Image
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
What I loved about Edinburgh was being able to walk to work through a beautiful place. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I was a chorister at St Mary's Music School, from the ages of 11 to 13, after prep school and before I went to… — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I think that's… — Michelle Gomez Copy Share Image
Edinburgh is a world city, visited throughout the year for its beauty and history, but in August, it is the City of Hope. There… — Dominic Holland Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known.” “That is very well… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
