Cities Quotes
4162 Cities quotes by 2604 unique authors
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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies…
— George Eliot
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was…
— Rahm Emanuel
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While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless…
— Rahm Emanuel
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All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.
— Paul Engle
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
— Epicurus
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Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
— Arthur Erickson
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You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.
— Jamie Farr
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But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.
— Louis Farrakhan
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There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and…
— Bob Feller
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I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.
— Julian Fellowes
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After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved…
— Tina Fey
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are…
— Nathan Fillion
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There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could…
— Mark Haddon
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I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
— Milos Forman
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
— Zaha Hadid
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
— Zaha Hadid
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice.…
— Zaha Hadid
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When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.
— Larry Hagman
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The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment.…
— William Hague
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San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy.…
— George Halas
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in…
— Eddie Van Halen
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I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many…
— Mohsin Hamid
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If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.
— Alan Hansen
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