Cities Quotes

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For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we couldn't… — Stuart Dybek
Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all must… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had… — H.G. Wells
It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up,… — Laurence Tribe
When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of… — Kid Koala
It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench,… — Florence Ellinwood Allen
The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever. — Bubba Sparxxx
New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the… — Danny Glover
So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with… — Michael Chertoff
The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York… — Michael Chertoff
I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he… — James A. Baldwin
A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person,… — Thomas Jefferson
They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes,… — Donna Tartt
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops… — Richard Ford
I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it… — John Starks
I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer. — Calamity Jane
White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and… — Erica Jong
It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous… — Nanette Lepore
By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs… — Rick Steves
Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees .… — Hilda Doolittle
Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained. — Ulysses S. Grant
I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to… — Hermann Maier
I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower. — Ed Westwick

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