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When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American… — Armistead Maupin
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it… — Frank Moore Colby
I was in Nauvoo on the 26th of May, 1846, for the last time, and left the city of the Saints feeling that most likely… — Wilford Woodruff
And believe me, to have been in the city of Tuscaloosa in October when you were young and full of Early Times and had a… — Howell Raines
Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country. — Jack Kelley
It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing… — Edward Gibbon
Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing… — Robert Caro
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous… — Robert Caro
In the looking, I found the cities within me. — Suketu Mehta
The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills… — Kevin Powers
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let… — Henry A. Wallace
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty.… — Edward Gibbon
I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there,… — Jackie Collins
Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for… — Billy Tauzin
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other. — Epictetus
The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss.… — Kingsley Amis
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. — Daniel Libeskind
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. — Delia Ephron
There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council. — Steve Chabot
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. — Wilfred Burchett

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