City Quotes
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There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
Jaime Lerner
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I always tell people that being the mayor of an urban city for eight years was like getting run over by a truck every day. There's inner satisfaction, but 24 hours a day, every day, I'm on duty.
Lois Frankel
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There are so many musicians in New York, and there is this energy and fire in this city that inspires you and makes you want to learn and to get out there. People are constantly evolving and constantly creating here, and you get pushed along just by being in that energy.
Cyrille Aimee
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After a very busy three weeks spent in the City, I now have a much better understanding how all the different financial institutions work and how they fit together.
Prince William
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The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.
Drew Carey
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We see a transformation of warfare from the big armies and battlefields in open spaces to a fragmentation of armed groups and smaller armies, which move into city centres, which increasingly become the theatre of warfare.
Peter Maurer
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The city had grown, implacably, spreading its concrete and alloy fingers wider every day over the dark and feral country. Nothing could stop it. Mountains were stamped flat. Rivers were dammed off or drained or put elsewhere. The marshes were filled. The animals shot from the trees and then the trees cut down. And the big gray machines moved forward, gobbling up the jungle with their iron teeth, chewing it clean of its life and all its living things.
Until it was no more.
Leveled, smoothed as a highway is smoothed, its centuries choked beneath millions and millions of tons of hardened stone.
The birth of a city... It had become the death of a world.
Charles Beaumont
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This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
Derek Walcott
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After graduating from Brown, I went to law school and became a corporate lawyer in New York City.
Andrew Yan
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I am neither bound to say why I came to this city nor to answer the other questions put to me.
El Greco
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I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.
Eli Broad
