Cities Quotes

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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities,… — Khalil Gibran
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its… — Henry Ward Beecher
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire. — Richard J. Maybury
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. — Charles Dudley Warner
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. — Augustus
Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu. — Robert Breault
Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout… — L. Welch Pogue
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals… — Winston Churchill
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Took over my city and I never asked permission to. — Drake
To my city I'm the 2-3 — Drake
In your city faded off the brown, NINO. She insists she got more class, WE KNOW. — Drake
I'm a staple in my city, you can never ruin me. — Drake
All I care about is money and the city that I'm from. — Drake
I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads. — Drake
I don't know the traffic regulations of every city I get to either, but I manage to drive through without being arrested. — Lloyd Mangrum
When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge… — Rudy Giuliani
The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his… — Walt Whitman
Diversity gives our city a competitive edge. — Thomas Menino

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