Cities Quotes
4162 Cities quotes by 2604 unique authors
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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my…
— Vernon L. Smith
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In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My…
— Valerie Harper
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And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city…
— James Harrington
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The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can…
— Oliver Evans
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I believe God has instilled in us a craving, a deep desire to run with Him on a fantastic adventure, yet many of us crawl…
— Bryan Davis
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Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.
— Lester Beall
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In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old…
— Guru Gobind Singh
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My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in…
— Maria Monk
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I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.
— Alex Rodriguez
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It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of…
— Eli Manning
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The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas…
— Gyorgy Kepes
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Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or…
— Janice Hahn
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But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man…
— John Muir
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Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia;…
— Edgar Quinet
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The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build…
— Marcus Garvey
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Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to…
— John Muir
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The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them,…
— Brigham Young
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It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.
— Will Rogers
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If you didn’t believe it before — and it’s easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point — if you didn’t…
— David Letterman
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The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer…
— David Letterman
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Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.
— Harold Washington
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Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks…
— Edmondo De Amicis
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