Cities Quotes

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I give so much of myself on Sunday. I drain all the life out of myself out there. I get paid to play, to win,… — Randall Cunningham
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek… — Helen Prejean
In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what… — Hal Higdon
We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development. — Glenn Ford
Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities. — Assar Lindbeck
We no longer see the world as a single entity. We've moved to cities and we think the economy is what gives us our life,… — David Suzuki
In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air… — Lester R. Brown
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of… — Lester R. Brown
Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or… — Albert Allen Bartlett
I have not been one who believed in the global warming. But I tell you, they are making a convert out of me as these… — Pat Robertson
There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio. — John F. Kennedy
So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if those lines are… — David Suzuki
What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders… — Oliver Goldsmith
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before… — Leonard Cohen
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall… — William Jacob Holland
Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a… — Pope Francis
We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless… — Caryll Houselander
In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and spirit, especially for… — Pope Benedict XVI

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