Cities Quotes

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That's where peace begins - not just in the plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people. Not just in some carefully designed process,… — Barack Obama
They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they're all lazy or weak of… — Barack Obama
If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens… — Joseph J. Romm
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans. — Joseph J. Romm
Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your… — Laurie David
The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast… — Van Jones
We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key. — Greg Nickels
We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy. — Jay Inslee
The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall. — Heraclitus
People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege… — Sean Hannity
And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities… — Alex Jones
If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good… — Steffi Graf
A Mediterranean city is really my culture. — Zinedine Zidane
I was walking along a road one evening â€“ on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down… — Edvard Munch
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didnâ€™t know enough to stay in… — S. J. Perelman
Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and… — Oswald Spengler
The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process. — Gianfranco Ferre
Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to… — Margaret Mead
In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries… — Oswald Spengler
It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be… — Oswald Spengler

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