Cities Quotes
4162 quotes by 2671 authors
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I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to…
— Richard J. Daley
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They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.
— Doug Larson
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
— Plato
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He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
— Robert MacNeil
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The city is going to survive, we are going to get through it, It's going to be very, very difficult time. I don't think we…
— Rudy Giuliani
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Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused horrendous casualty, I…
— Jiang Zemin
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[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just as…
— Donald Trump
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first…
— Anatole France
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But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots…
— Mark Sutcliffe
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I am delighted to be here in these new [Council on Foreign Relations] headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in…
— Hillary Clinton
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What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted…
— Mark McGwire
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I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but from the fans…
— Hope Solo
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I stand by this man (President George W. Bush). I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands…
— Stephen Colbert
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I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.
— Thomas Menino
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It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.
— John Thomason
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We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order…
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
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War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there…
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
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It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror,…
— Winston Churchill
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