Cities Quotes

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People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let… — Henry A. Wallace
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty.… — Edward Gibbon
I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there,… — Jackie Collins
Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for… — Billy Tauzin
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other. — Epictetus
The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss.… — Kingsley Amis
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. — Daniel Libeskind
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. — Delia Ephron
There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council. — Steve Chabot
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. — Wilfred Burchett
I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've… — Arsenio Hall
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold… — Albert Camus
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. — Edward Dahlberg
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold… — Samuel Johnson
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city. — Solomon
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. — Thomas Browne
We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world… — Buenaventura Durruti
Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was… — Mirra Alfassa
The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of… — Lorin Maazel
Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25 — Chris Ware
What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of… — Bob Dole
I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is… — Joy Williams
For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart. — Nelson Algren
As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal… — Spencer Bachus
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at… — Tony Abbott

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