Cities Quotes

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I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers… — Theodore White
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars… — P.J. O'Rourke
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement… — Steven Chu
From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an… — Dennis Kucinich
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we… — Samuel Johnson
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to… — Benjamin Disraeli
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry. — Shirley Chisholm
Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life… — Thomas Adams
Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities… — Mike Royko
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people… — Thomas Sowell
I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an… — Paul Coffey
Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their minds on faith and redirect… — George W. Bush
Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people? — E E Cummings
I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not… — John F. Kerry
You win all the Tucsons, all the Kemps, all the Iron City Opens you can, nobody remembers. You win a Masters, nobody ever forgets — Bob Goalby
For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the… — John Bagot Glubb
[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a… — Eduardo Paes
The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What… — Buzz Aldrin
According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones… — Robert Klein

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