Cities Quotes

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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura… — William S. Burroughs
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking… — James Fenton
Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void. — Glen Duncan
It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond… — Wilma Rudolph
My favorite food city is wherever I happen to be eating. You know what they say, love the one you're with! — Pamela Anderson
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. — Herbert V. Prochnow
City life is millions of people being lonesome together. — Henry David Thoreau
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to… — Benjamin Disraeli
Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city. — Alexander MacLaren
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. — Cyril Connolly
The city is recruited from the country. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square — Puff Daddy
In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or… — Douglas Engelbart
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but… — Thomas Jefferson
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human… — Thomas Jefferson
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there… — Thomas Jefferson
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. — Italo Calvino
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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