Cities Quotes

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No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I… — Chris Paul
Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit… — Roberto Rossellini
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is… — Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish… — Edward Hoagland
Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America. — Rick Perry
If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. — Spiro T. Agnew
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a… — Meredith Willson
It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I… — Mike Royko
When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But… — Grete Waitz
Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged — Sharyn McCrumb
All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage… — John Flavel
Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill. — Michael Reagan
Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse. — Clay Shirky
You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that… — Owen Wilson
Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget… — Leslie Caron
I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a… — Katherine Mansfield
I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I… — Michel de Montaigne
There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing… — James Joyce
MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York. — Ambrose Bierce

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