Cities Quotes

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I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens… — Rick Wakeman
We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at… — George W. Sears
Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights and sounds, the… — Tony Hiss
Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our streets. Nearly all… — Michael Bloomberg
New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He… — Emo Philips
Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained in 1982 from… — Murray Rothbard
To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the… — Eric Alterman
An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the… — James Keller
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you. — Simon Pegg
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in… — P.D. James
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot… — Sara Paretsky
You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment. — Graham Hill
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest… — Sophocles
Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would… — Kerry King
I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city. — Fernando Pessoa
And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great… — Louis Aragon
When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative… — Malcolm Gladwell
And itâ€™s not just that â€˜we all need somebody to lean onâ€™; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others is often more… — Jonathan Haidt
Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist. — Italo Calvino

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