Cities Quotes
4162 Cities quotes by 2604 unique authors
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The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica…
— Dahr Jamail
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Why did New York feel more like home to me than home did? I'd heard of love at first sight, but I didn't know it…
— Lisa Mangum
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I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New…
— Bill de Blasio
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I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how…
— Bill de Blasio
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I think small business is struggling in New York City. It's a fantastic market, it's a very appealing market, there's lots of opportunity, at the…
— Bill de Blasio
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In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.
— Ken Schoolland
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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
— Adolf Loos
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
— Dorothy Parker
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We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.
— John Lennon
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Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
— Fran Lebowitz
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New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.
— Colson Whitehead
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The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
— Wendell Berry
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I know the city and the club, and I can tell you that when you play for Manchester United at Old Trafford, you no longer…
— Patrice Evra
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You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.
— Audre Lorde
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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
— Oscar Wilde
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I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without…
— Charles Bukowski
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Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but…
— Thomas Adams
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God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is…
— Jacob Zuma
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I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.
— Anna Sui
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Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by…
— Marc Morial
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If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the…
— Antony Beevor
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Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city…
— Willie Stargell
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I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer…
— Everett Ruess
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I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved…
— Everett Ruess
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The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of…
— Unknown Author
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