Cities Quotes
4162 quotes by 2604 authors
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I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public…
— Alan Autry
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The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old…
— Armistead Maupin
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We're all doing time. As soon as we get born, we find ourselves assigned to one little body, one set of desires and fears, one…
— Bo Lozoff
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The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.
— George Herbert
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I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
— George Mason
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city…
— Ed Harris
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a…
— Michel de Montaigne
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In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to…
— Polybius
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The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.
— Barry Eisler
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The Mayor, Aldermen and Councilors of the City of Nauvoo, IL, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe an oath…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute…
— Ramsay MacMullen
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Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a…
— Saint Augustine
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I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.
— Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and…
— John R. Lott Jr.
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Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They're branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to conduct mass killings.…
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
— Adolf Hitler
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Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
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In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships…
— Albert Speer
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Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial sites…
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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