Cities Quotes - Page 30

• San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

  Gavin Newsom

  Home, San Francisco, Evening

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• As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected

  Gavin Newsom

  Hard Work, Men, San Francisco

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• As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options

  Gavin Newsom

  Beautiful, Hard Work, San Francisco

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• First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, Team, People

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• The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

  Alfred Doblin

  Home, Men, Groups

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• Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.

  M. John Harrison

  Dream, Paris, Vision

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• Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.

  Erik Larson

  Lakes, People, Important

  Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.482, Random House

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• The thing about Manchester is...it all comes from here

  Noel Gallagher

  Manchester

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• My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

  Tayari Jones

  Children, Atlanta, Leaving

  "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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• One day in 1959, when Huddersfield were playing Cardiff City, Tom (T.V.) Williams, who was then chairman of Liverpool, and Harry Latham, a director, came down the slope at Leeds Road to see me.
  Mr Williams said, 'How would you like to manage the best club in the country?'
  'Why, is Matt Busby packing it up?' I asked.

  Bill Shankly

  Country, One Day, Directors

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• This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Team, Two

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• At first we didn't have a lot of access to New York City, but very quickly, I think people recognized if you were on the show that was a good thing. We always saw the show as a love letter to New York City.

  Josh Schwartz

  New York, Thinking, People

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• Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet.

  Robert Hass

  Sweet, Justice, Water

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.

  Hernando Cortes

  Water, Purpose, Body

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• Oklahoma City bombing was done on purpose. Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system?

  Kent Hovind

  Oklahoma City, Government, People

  "Evolution: the Foundation for Communism, Nazism, Socialism, and the New World Order". Book by Kent Hovind, 2003.

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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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• Cities at daybreak are no one's,
  and have no names.
  And I, too, have no name,
  dawn, the stars growing pale,
  the train picking up speed.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Stars, Names, Dawn

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• It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me.

  Vince Carter

  Fans, Looks, Want

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• All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Wall, Moving, Writing

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.5, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Bored, Temples, Sun

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.3, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Exit, Relief, Vortex

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• We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That's lost. We know how to read every promise in faces-the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Years, Bored, Promise

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• There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, New Orleans, French Quarter

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• My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not to be found in the decisions in Washington. They are instead to be found in the hearts, minds and resources of our own people here at home.

  Jerry Springer

  Home, Heart, People

  Speech given to citizens in Cincinnati Ohio, Circa 1970.

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• The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

  Nostradamus

  War, Burning, Bigs

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