Cities Quotes
4162 Cities quotes by 2604 unique authors
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On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul,…
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you talk about My…
— Orhan Pamuk
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All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time,…
— Victor Hugo
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I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories…
— Grant Morrison
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
— Al Sharpton
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It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was…
— Philip Gibbs
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But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad…
— James Henry Breasted
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The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the…
— Fritz Todt
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother…
— Zhang Ziyi
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Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children,…
— Thomas Menino
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If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New…
— John Tesh
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In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I…
— Ernst Mayr
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But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful…
— Laura Miller
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Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they…
— Anthony Weiner
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The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company…
— Fisher Stevens
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We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
— Jose Clemente Orozco
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Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.
— Mortimer Zuckerman
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I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal…
— John Philip Sousa
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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to…
— William Osler
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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.
— David Blunkett
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My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He…
— Pat Metheny
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My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the…
— Joseph C. Lincoln
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
— Sally Ride
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We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic…
— Garrison Keillor
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