Cities Quotes - Page 12

• But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.

  Antonin Scalia

  Believe, Gun, Hands

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• I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.

  Bob Filner

  Children, School, Years

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• New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city. When all of these kinds of music blended into one, jazz was born.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Military, Echoes, New Orleans

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• From the shadow of domes in the city of domes,
  A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room
  And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up
  From your book, saw it the moment it landed. That's all
  There was to it.

  Mark Strand

  Book, Shadow, Arms

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.344, Knopf

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• And if the City falls and one survives
  he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile
  he shall be the City

  Zbigniew Herbert

  Fall, Exile, Ifs

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• Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.

  Carolyn Cassady

  Moving, Book, Documentaries

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• The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

  Democritus

  Men, Brave, Enemy

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 163), 1948.

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• Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.

  Gorgias

  Mistake, Men, Errors

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• Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

  Clive James

  Dirty, Names, Prejudice

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

  John Zorn

  Song, Japan, Stuff

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• That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about

  John Zorn

  People, May, Information

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• It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

  Gayle Forman

  Thinking, Secret, Feels

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.53, Penguin

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• I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

  Zaha Hadid

  Jewels, Trying, Together

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glance, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

  Kenzo Tange

  Architecture, Consideration, Importance

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• And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city

  Daniel Libeskind

  Interesting, Berlin, Courses

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• And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Design, Needs, Restoration

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

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• I miss Seattle a lot. It was my first city that I lived in on my own. It was a great city to play for. It was unfortunate for the fans what happened, but it’s time to move on. I’m sure they’ve moved on. But in the back of my mind, I still have a thing for Seattle and always am going to remember what they’ve done for me.

  Kevin Durant

  Moving, Play, Missing

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• I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.

  Chris Paul

  Oklahoma City, Tornadoes, Clue

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• We wanted to impress the crowd so much. The city has done so much for us and welcomed us right in, and we just wanted to give them a good show and show them that we're going to play for them. I think guys just had a little bit of jitters.

  Chris Paul

  Thinking, Play, Giving

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• No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.

  Chris Paul

  New York, Florida, Who I Am

  Interview with Teena Apeles, me.askmen.com.

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• Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit of humility and respect for the facts and for history. What as the meaning of ROME, OPEN CITY? We were emerging from the tragedy of the war. We had all taken part in it, for we were all its victims. I sought only to picture the essence of things. I had absolutely no interest in telling a romanticized tale along the usual lives of film drama. The actual facts were each more dramatic than any screen cliche.

  Roberto Rossellini

  War, Drama, Taken

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• Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is why a poem speaks not of ideal life but of actual life: the angle of a window; the reverberation of streets, cities, rooms; shadows along a wall.

  Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

  Wall, Real, Voice

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• City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

  Edward Hoagland

  Country, Time, Future

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Stupid, Ghetto, Hateful

  In Detroit Free Press 19 Oct. 1968

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• Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a spurt of brilliance. It is shot through with originality, verve, and-why not go all the way?-genius. People love it, can't get enough of it, can't stop performing it-and they are not wrong. For closing in on a half- century now, The Music Man has been performed continually, in every American city, town, and village, and in other parts of the world as well, not excluding Peking.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, People, Why Not

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