Cities Quotes

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With the sweat of your brow. Rapture can become your city as well. — Andrew Ryan
Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute certainty? I know… — Andrew Ryan
To build a city at the bottom of the sea: insanity. But where else could we be free from the clutching hand of the parasites?… — Andrew Ryan
Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time! — Theophilus London
In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get away… — Sarah Schulman
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture… — Allan Savory
Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion,… — Jeff Goodell
I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been… — Carol Rifka Brunt
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru. — Daniel Alarcon
The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life. — Betty Smith
It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet - with the soul-deep… — Victoria Moran
All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine diaspora, have a… — Jessica Hagedorn
I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people… — Dhani Jones
I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city… — Marcus Brigstocke
It is amazing to me how deeply into the popular culture the creature has become. There are zombie walks in every major city. I live… — George A. Romero
I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily… — Charles de Lint
Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss. — Ouida
We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror,… — Winston Churchill
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the… — Bernard Baruch
I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure,… — William Hazlitt

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