City And Country Quotes

• All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

  Christopher Morley

  Beautiful, Cities, Mad

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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• A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Next Week, Cities

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Elaine Partnow "The New Quotable Woman: From Eve To the Present Day" (p. 331), 1993.

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• City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.

  William P. Young

  Country, Pain, Cities

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• Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

  Gary Hustwit

  Country, Games, Cities

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Children, Pain

  Martin Luther (1956). “The sermon on the mount and the magnificat”

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• I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures, deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it's already there, that's the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be.

  Michael Ende

  Country, Book, Adventure

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• Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their laws; and the consequences are that the whole country among them is overrun with the most abominable practices: adulteries and unlawful connections through all their villages, towns, cities, and country places to a most fearful extent.

  Orson Pratt

  Country, Believe, Europe

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• We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

  Nikola Tesla

  Country, Hurt, Get Well

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

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• Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.

  Bill Mollison

  Country, Animal, Cities

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• Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Responsibility, Cities

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “October 1, 1931, to March 4, 1933”

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• We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed the world, because he had remained with us. As we walked about the city, or traveled to different cities and countries, it was not the beautiful and interesting things around us that attracted us. Not even Rome's wonderful monuments and precious relics seemed so important. Rather, what gave a sense of continuity to our journeying through the world for Jesus, was His Eucharistic presence in the tabernacles we found wherever we went.

  Chiara Lubich

  Beautiful, Country, Jesus

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• Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells.

  Mark Helprin

  Love, Beautiful, Country

  Mark Helprin (2014). “A New York Winter's Tale”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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• Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Country, Maturity, Cities

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