Cities Quotes
4162 quotes by 2671 authors
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Nightclub City tells the behind-the-scenes story of Manhattan's glamorous nightlife at its peak. Packed with colorful characters, terrific original research, and an unusually accessible writing…
— Debby Applegate
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So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles,…
— Chip Giller
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The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love…
— Genghis Khan
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The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
— Aesop Rock
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This is different than every other Ebola situation we've ever had. It's spreading widely, throughout entire countries, through multiple countries, in cities and very fast.
— Vincent Martin
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New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.
— Pharoahe Monch
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Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.
— Herbert Hoover
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A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen…
— Thucydides
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Being a resident of the city and spending most of my time in the city, I've always been perplexed with how people could say there's…
— Brian Boyle
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His background and knowledge can't be transplanted overnight, ... I'd make a point that unless you sat on the throne, you don't know what it's…
— Jeri Ryan
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The reality is this city will not be the same for a while, ... We're not saying bring New Orleans back today.
— Ray Nagin
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This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives poor in my…
— Jonathan Jakubowicz
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The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
— Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality…
— Laura Thielen
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We should figure out how to do this so that some parents don't feel disenfranchised, angry and upset. It says a lot about the state…
— Lisa Randall
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This is critical to the region. Every other major city has public transportation going downtown. We have a world-class airport now, and this could be…
— Debbie Stabenow
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The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men.…
— William Penn
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Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then…
— Corliss Lamont
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Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's…
— Zaha Hadid
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When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are…
— Laozi
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