Cities Quotes - Page 8

• And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

  Thomas Menino

  Birthday, Epic, Boston

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• And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

  John Guare

  Easter, New York, Sunday

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• I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

  Joe Frazier

  Boxing, Body, Shots

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• The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities survive and lead the way in the transformation required to combat global warming? Resilient Cities gives us a road map for this epic journey upon which we are embarking.

  Greg Nickels

  Kids, Epic, Opportunity

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• Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.

  Edward Glaeser

  World, Static, Great Cities

  Edward Glaeser (2011). “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Wall, Capacity To Love, Ivy

  Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (2012). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.47, Univ of California Press

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• Thank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition.

  Rocky Anderson

  Honor, Composition

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• I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it can become an intense personal experience. Manila can be chaotic and spiritual, dirty and divine, gritty and gorgeous all at once. If you don't find beauty and poetry here, you will never find it anywhere.

  Carlos Celdran

  Spiritual, Believe, Dirty

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• I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

  Deborah Levy

  Moving, Past, Forever

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• Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

  Christopher Rice

  Memories, Looks, Former

  Christopher Rice (2009). “Blind Fall: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Party, Drinking, Mean

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• An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

  Karen Abbott

  Chicago, Looks, Way

  Karen Abbott (2007). “Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul”, p.3, Random House

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• The highway program devalues the tax base of a city.

  John Norquist

  Program, Devalue, Taxes

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• Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price.

  John Norquist

  Europe, America, Periods

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• Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core of this lovely and lyrical collection of poems. The weather changes, people come and go from cities and towns, babies are born, grow up and depart from their parents’ arms, but still, the countryside and its rituals sustain the people and creatures who know how to read the signs of the seasons. In these pages, Laura Grace Weldon shares those signs with us; her poems are the fruit of a wonderful harvest.

  Eleanor Lerman

  Baby, Growing Up, Memories

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• In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the categories of race and class as they affected the formation of African American identity. Leslie Harris has made a major contribution to our understanding of the black experience.

  Eric Foner

  New York, Race, Class

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• I pick things up in different cities, so my wardrobe is kind of a souvenir chest.

  Hilary Hahn

  Different, Kind, Souvenirs

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• The colors. The city. Nothing. But they’ve got some good food, though. Other than the food, nothing.

  Roddy White

  Color, Good Food

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• They should've built a city on rock and roll.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Rock And Roll, Rocks, Should

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.67, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• As a city powered by our country's knowledge economy, Toronto will continue to benefit from developing, attracting and retaining the world's most promising young researchers at the University of Toronto. Our government will continue to invest in research awards that lead to long-term social and economic benefits for Canadians.

  Peter Van Loan

  Country, Awards, Government

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• In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.

  Lou Barletta

  Differences, People, Immigration

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• I have visited Tromsø and can personally say Tromsø is a beautiful city, well equipped to be an excellent choice for the Chess Olympiad 2014.

  Susan Polgar

  Beautiful, Choices, Chess

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• Dhaka the city of mosques has become the city of Hindu temples.

  Delwar Hossain Sayeedi

  Mosques, Temples

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• There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people.

  Toru Hashimoto

  Light, People, Development

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• For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!

  Bettany Hughes

  Wall, War, Heart

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