Cities Quotes

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People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people. — Ernst Reuter
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day… — John F. Kennedy
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight,… — Remy de Gourmont
I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could… — Michael Parenti
Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all.… — Lady Gaga
Cities are the abyss of the human species. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in… — Robert Southey
If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall.… — Julian Bond
We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may… — John F. Kennedy
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had… — Archibald MacLeish
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind… — Walter Bagehot
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot… — Edward Abbey
Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife… — Leonard Cohen
In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic visions that leave… — Hillary Clinton
She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block. — Garrison Keillor
Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known… — Philip K. Dick
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation.… — John Francis Hylan

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