Cities Quotes - Page 36

• As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Israel, Rome, Land

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• The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Believe, Years, Mexico

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• There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Country, Garden, House

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

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• Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Garden, Vegas, Oasis

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• It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Cells, Honor

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• In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

  Thomas Menino

  Fighting, Boston, Community

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• I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.

  Michael Urie

  Middle

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• I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby. But I also believe that when a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels someone disrespected him, we have a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge that there's a hole in his heart, one that government programs alone may not be able to repair.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Heart, Gun

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, October 17, 2006.

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• The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

  Nancy Travis

  Independent, Doctors, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.

  Susette La Flesche

  Children, Struggle, Men

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• There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

  Jaime Lerner

  Creativity, Tree, Littles

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• Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Family, Men, Sacred

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• The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

  Bertrand Delanoe

  Facts, Architecture, Bigs

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• They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.

  Teri Hatcher

  Home, Thinking, Safe

  "Music stars' hearts are with Katrina victims". www.today.com. September 2, 2005.

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• Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heaven, London, Hell

  'Peter Bell the Third' (1819) pt. 3, st. 1

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• Night falling on the city
  Quite something to behold
  Don't it just look so pretty
  This disappearing world

  David Gray

  Fall, Night, Looks

  Song: Disappearing World, Album: Life In Slow Motion, 2005

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• Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Father, Leader

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.87, Beacon Press

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• The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.

  B. C. Forbes

  Humble, Responsibility, Biblical

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.120, Lulu.com

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• I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away. There is something almost haunted about it, a vibrant mythology I find rather inspiring.

  Hedi Slimane

  Los Angeles, Mythology, Late

  "Johnny Depp paints nails, Herman Cain ripped over moustache, Beastie Boys go bape, and Esquire gives 'damn good advice'" by Christina Moffitino and Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 10, 2011.

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• I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

  Elliott Smith

  People, Faces, Saws

  Song: High Times, Album: New Moon, 2007

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• When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the school bus for the first day of kindergarten, a close colleague changing jobs, a move to a new city - we are more likely to appreciate [be grateful for] and savor the remaining time that we do have. Although bittersweet experiences also make us sad, it is this sadness that prompts us, instead of taking it for granted, to come to appreciate the positive aspects of our vacation, colleague, or hometown; it's 'now or never.'

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Gratitude, Jobs, Children

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• Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.

  Amelia Barr

  Song, Gratitude, Light

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• Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about seven other American cities. At each supportive rally, thousands huddled around loudspeakers waiting for the Garden event, which would be broadcast live via radio to 200 additional cities across the country. At least 1 million Jews were participating nationwide. Perhaps another million Americans of non-Jewish descent heritage stood with them.

  Edwin Black

  Country, Garden, San Francisco

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• I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.

  Everett Ruess

  Stars, Tired, Sky

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• If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

  Antony Beevor

  Block, Perfect, Trying

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