Wilfred Burchett Quotes
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.
-
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
-
This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
-
Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
-
What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
-
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
-
In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
-
I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.
-
In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.
-
In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.
-
St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
-
I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
-
New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.
-
I primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping.
-
I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.
-
The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.
-
I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.
-
The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
-
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.
-
Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.
-
My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
-
At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.
-
Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.
-
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
