Cities Quotes

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In discussing the state of the atmosphere following a nuclear exchange, we point especially to the effects of the many fires that would be ignited… — Paul J. Crutzen
The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city. — Carl Van Vechten
For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted… — George Downame
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come… — Tycho Brahe
I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor of theology will… — Nicolas Cotugno
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the… — C. Wright Mills
Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies central… — Thomas Naylor
On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes… — Victor Grignard
This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony between science and… — Pope Pius XI
Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.… — Jeffrey Boam
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. — Geoffrey Fisher
At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very… — Ellen Gallagher
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of… — William J. Brennan
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house… — Eliel Saarinen
Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the… — Sun Tzu
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a… — Lucian
The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was… — William Lane Craig
What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down… — Jerome Cavanagh
You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it… — Saint Basil
A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes. — Ralph Klein

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