Cities Quotes - Page 18

• I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  New Orleans, Kansas City, Style

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• I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.

  Tom Ridge

  New York, Thinking, Done

  "Ridge: Alert to remain orange through the week". Interview with Bill Hemmer, cnn.com. December 30, 2003.

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• From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solidly atop it a skewed rendition of crenellated building bricks. The orange street lamps are crumpled toffee-wrappers glued to lollipop sticks.

  Ian Rankin

  Children, Sleep, Orange

  Ian Rankin (2010). “Dead Souls: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. But, as with Belfast it took me years to penetrate its outer ugliness and dourness, so with Dublin it took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

  Louis MacNeice

  Home, Years, Names

  "The strings are false: an unfinished autobiography".

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• That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

  Maxine Waters

  Resources, Congress, Mayors

  "Los Angeles Times Interview : Maxine Waters : Veteran Legislator Makes People Angry-but She's Never Ignored". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. May 16, 1993.

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• Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Home, Shopping, Citizens

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• It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy I could travel to the seacoasts with, a boy I'd like to meet up with in foreign cities like Calcutta and London and Brazil, a boy I could trust who also had a good sense of humor and liked smoked oysters from a can and good weed and the occasional 40 ounces of malt. If I was going to be alone for the rest of my life this was the person I wanted to be alone with.

  Russell Banks

  Weed, Kids, Boys

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• New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.

  Colson Whitehead

  New York, Example, Cab

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• It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.

  Carlos Tevez

  Regret, Wish, Clubs

  "Tevez: I want to leave Manchester City". www.mirror.co.uk. July 4, 2011.

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• Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately.

  Chris Noth

  Sex, New York, Shoes

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• Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting:   the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

  Frank Norris

  Interesting, Would Be, Stories

  Frank Norris, Donald Pizer (1986). “Novels and Essays”, p.1112, Library of America

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• Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

  Bill Janklow

  Jobs, New York, Fall

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• Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been.

  Edna O'Brien

  Kissing, Vastness, Covenant

  Edna O'Brien (2011). “Saints and Sinners”, p.128, Faber & Faber

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• I was in Nauvoo on the 26th of May, 1846, for the last time, and left the city of the Saints feeling that most likely I was taking a final farewell of Nauvoo for this life. I looked upon the temple and city as they receded from view and asked the Lord to remember the sacrifices of His Saints.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Farewell, Sacrifice, Views

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• The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.

  Gene Baur

  New York, California, People

  Gene Baur (2008). “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America's capital city.

  Star Parker

  Sex, Wine, America

  Star Parker (2010). “Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.

  Eusebius

  War, Men, People

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• That's where peace begins - not just in the plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people. Not just in some carefully designed process, but in the daily connections - that sense of empathy that takes place among those who live together in this land and in this sacred city of Jerusalem.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Land, People

  Remarks of President Barack Obama To the People of Israel, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 21, 2013.

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• They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Giving Up, Home

  Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

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• Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your temple, your city.

  Laurie David

  Moving, Book, School

  Laurie David (2006). “The Solution is You!: An Activist's Guide”, p.34, Fulcrum Publishing

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• The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into preKatrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes. - Joseph Romm210. The generations living today get to retrofit, reboot, and reenergize a nation. We get to rescue and reinvent the U.S. economy.

  Van Jones

  New Orleans, Sea, Feet

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• We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.

  Jay Inslee

  Car, Energy, Climate

  Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks (2013). “Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy”, p.286, Island Press

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• The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

  Heraclitus

  Wall, Fighting, Law

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• A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

  S. J. Perelman

  Wife, Fool, Enough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.

  Oswald Spengler

  Country, Men, Long Ago

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1961). “The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history”

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