Cities Quotes - Page 37

• New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

  Colson Whitehead

  New York, Self, Doe

  Colson Whitehead (2018). “The Colossus of New York”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.

  Ken Schoolland

  Tears, Trying, Might

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• From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We have always been in halves. As long as we invent and progress in mechanical things and not in love, we shall not achieve happiness.

  Jean Giono

  Long, House, Progress

  Jean Giono (2013). “Blue Boy”, p.150, Read Books Ltd

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• All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

  Henry Williamson

  Cities In The World, Experience, World

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• Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.

  Chaz Brenchley

  Regret, Real, Rain

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• I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

  Ben Lerner

  Would Be, Way, Irony

  Ben Lerner (2014). “10:04: A Novel”, p.4, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.

  Wellington Webb

  Empires, Century, States

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• It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

  Diane Frolov

  Sleep, Church, Sides

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• Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.

  Marc Morial

  Tasks, Done, Opponents

  "CNN Sunday Morning", www.cnn.com. May 21, 2006.

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• I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps

  Frank Sinatra

  Sleep, Wake Up, Want

  Song: New York, New York

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• I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

  Ville Valo

  Europe, Firsts, Bigs

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• As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

  Reynolds Price

  Mother, Children, City Streets

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• I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.

  Arthur Cravan

  Country, Memories, Color

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• I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

  Anna Sui

  Next, Unexpected, Bigs

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• I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

  John Guare

  New York, Thinking, Yankees

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• I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

  John Guare

  Mean Girls, New York, World

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• Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

  Lin Biao

  Latin, Europe, Gdp

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• I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

  John Guare

  New York, Thinking, Years

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• Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Humanity, Today, Chaos

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• God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is even blessed in Heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back. We should not allow anyone to govern our city [Cape Town] when we are ruling the country.

  Jacob Zuma

  Country, Jesus, Blessed

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• People look at black pride in America and sport's impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time Jackie Robinson stole home. In the deep South, it started with Eddie Robinson, who took a small college in northern Louisiana with little or no funds and sent the first black to the pros and made everyone look at him and Grambling.

  Jerry Izenberg

  Sports, Home, Pride

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• I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot

  Saul Perlmutter

  Growing Up, Kids, Perfect

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• The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

  Jaime Lerner

  Believe, Taken, Ideas

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• You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?

  Miguel Syjuco

  Memories, Shopping, Doe

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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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