Cities Quotes

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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it — George Bernard Shaw
As the Little House settled down on her new foundation, she smiled happily. Once again she could watch the sun and moon and stars. Once… — Virginia Lee Burton
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble… — Helen Keller
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in… — Charles Caleb Colton
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost.… — Dante Alighieri
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey… — Meredith Willson
You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate… — Edwidge Danticat
I think the people here in New York appreciated what I brought to the table, and they showed it when I retired by the way… — Patrick Ewing
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and… — Neville Chamberlain
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. — Jerzy Kosinski
Exeter City's trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it - they won't get the result… — Mark Lawrenson
I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's… — Rachel McAdams
As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have… — Carmelo Anthony
Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a… — Al McGuire
I won the city scoring championship as a senior. — Bob Cousy
It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball. — Bob Cousy
Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately. — Bob Cousy
Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't… — Julian Bond

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