Cities Quote by Katherine Cecil Thurston Download Open image “Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.” — Katherine Cecil Thurston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Florence Made Manifest Peace Tranquillity
“Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts.” — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, Florence was increasingly becoming, for different reasons that not were not foreign to one another nor opposed – artistic and cultural on the… — Franco Cardini Copy Share Image
Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it… — Peter Dundas Copy Share Image
“at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned” — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I've always considered Florence as my girlfriend. I don't have to explain my love for this city. — Gabriel Batistuta Copy Share Image
The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a study, no… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of… — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
“Tomaso of Florence. known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress of masters,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters),… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity. — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
“Italy has been a single, united country only since 1870. For many centuries before this, it was a collection of independent “city states.” Each city state was based on a main city, such as Venice, Florence, or Milan, and had its own customs and language. Even today, many people think of themselves first and foremost as Venetians (from Venice), or… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share
We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper,… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible! — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image