City Quotes
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You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.
Edwidge Danticat
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I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own.
Andrew O'Hagan
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The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.
Jonathan Kozol
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I will begin to remember our walk in the third person, as if I’d seen it from the Manhattan Bridge, but, at the time of writing, as I lean against the chain-link fence intended to stop jumpers, I am looking back at the totaled city in the second person plural. I know it’s hard to understand / I am with you, and I know how it is.
Ben Lerner
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I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
John Podhoretz
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My police record says I went to Panama City, but I don't recall it.
Brantley Gilbert
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Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.
Paul Ince
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A North Korea that has the capability to use a nuclear weapon that can reach an American city or those of an ally poses a grave challenge as the U.S. seeks to preserve peace and stability in the region.
Lois Frankel
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I could quite settle back in to this touring lark. I'd forgotten for a moment how dumb and vaguely repetitious it can be. And surprisingly fun at times. Richmond VA tonight and tomorrow I think it's Charlotte NC but I might have to check on that before I end up in the wrong city.
Wreckless Eric
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That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
Solon
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Nothing could have been greater than the pride of serving this city. I do not believe - I am sure I speak for my colleagues on all sides - nothing else that happens to us in our lives will be as rewarding and fulfilling as the years that we have spent in this building.
Ken Livingstone
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Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
Meir Kahane
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The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Everyone in Tel Aviv knows Yosl Bergner. In 2006, the mayor made him a Freeman of the City. Now he carries a card which allows him to park his car anywhere with impunity. If only he could drive.
Clive Sinclair
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Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.
Elin Hilderbrand
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I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.
Peter Jurasik
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My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.
Joe Lhota
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Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.
Nicola Formichetti
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It won't be too long that you'll be celebrating and you'll have confetti coming down on their heads and the city will just be going crazy.
Kevin Love
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Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home
Pam Jenoff
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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
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Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
Scott Westerfeld
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I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
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Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?
Jim Morrison The Doors