Cities Quotes - Page 26

• I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.

  Alan Chambers

  Gay, Rights, Special

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• In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.

  Rawi Hage

  Stars, Lost Ones, Track

  Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival: A Novel”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that Mother mild Jesus Christ her little Child . . . With the poor, and mean, and lowly, Lived on earth our Savior Holy.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Life, Mother, Baby

  1848 'Once in Royal David's City'.

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• At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

  Plato

  Art, Science, Discovery

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.442, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled by workers' and soldiers' councils. Adolf Hitler, recuperating in a military hospital, reacted violently to this news. "It became impossible for me to sit still one minute more," he wrote in Mein Kampf.

  James Cross Giblin

  Military, Government, History

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• In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive... Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen.

  Keith Bradsher

  Money, Powerful, Lying

  "INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; Obscure Global Bank Moves Into the Light". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 1995.

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• I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightlife. I miss the food. There are so many options in New York City.

  Regina Hall

  New York, Nightlife, People

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• Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  New York, New York City

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• O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

  Walt Whitman

  Dead Poets Society, Leaves Of Grass, Foolish

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.

  Rachel Kushner

  New York, Men, Listening

  Rachel Kushner (2013). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop. It was no longer beans that I hoed, nor I that hoed beans; and I remembered with as much pity as pride, if I remembered at all, my acquaintances who had gone to the city to attend the oratorios.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Pride, Sky, Hoe

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.247

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• So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles, kickstart 21st century industries, & make our cities safer & more livable. Don't let them get away with it!

  Chip Giller

  Independent, Air, America

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  The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.

  Genghis Khan

  Happiness, Daughter, Wife

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• ...Cops just surrounding me with pistols everywhere.
  They put me in the backseat of their car handcuffed,
  Pushed out them chests like they're big rough and tough.
  A cop come and said 'You'll never sell your guns now.'
  I said 'It doesn't matter, you'll sell them anyhow.
  You take the guns from me, you sell them for a fee;
  Anyway you put it, they'll get in the city!'

  KRS-One

  Rap, Gun, Car

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• We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits,
  Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.

  Ras Kass

  Rap, Hip Hop, Suits

  Song: Soul On Ice

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• Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Confusion, Curiosity

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.41

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• We should figure out how to do this so that some parents don't feel disenfranchised, angry and upset. It says a lot about the state of where we are in the city, the role of parents and the reality of small school and combining schools.

  Lisa Randall

  School, Reality, Parent

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• This is critical to the region. Every other major city has public transportation going downtown. We have a world-class airport now, and this could be an important additional piece to the airport development. This is a significant investment and one that should be seen as a significant long-term commitment to making this a reality.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Commitment, Reality, Airports

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• Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then spread to the much larger unit of the nation, and finally from the nation to mankind as a whole.

  Corliss Lamont

  Family, Feelings, Firsts

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.

  Zaha Hadid

  School, Thinking, Space

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• They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.

  Doug Larson

  Lying, Men, Should Have

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• [New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just as the character of the people who live here will not be altered by this tragedy.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Character, Essence

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• There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

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• What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.

  Mark McGwire

  Thank You, Sports, Home

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

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