Cities Quotes

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Love is a heavenly quality that is given to prepare men to enjoy the heavenly city more. — Jack Hyles
The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid… — Richard Selzer
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a… — John Naisbitt
Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do… — Anne Fadiman
This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in… — John Hodgman
When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city… — Ann Beattie
Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is… — Hugh Newell Jacobsen
There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then… — Dan DeCarlo
Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard… — John Hickenlooper
I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to… — Ed O'Neill
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. — James Henry Breasted
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood. — Samuel West
But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of… — Jane Byrne
The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now,… — Jerry Pournelle
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a… — William Henry Hudson
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in… — Leonard Woodcock
There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley,… — Jan Morris
The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the… — Norman Mailer
It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for… — Matthew Henry

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