City Quotes
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Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
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The city of the future is a city that cares about its citizens and integrates its citizens.
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We are prepared as a city to put on the best Mardi Gras that we have ever seen.
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city’s jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar.
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I want a leader that sets out a path. I want one that doesn't just talk about cuts, but talks about the shining city on the hill. We're only going to get out of this problem if we grow this economy.
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To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.
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Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
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A lot of guys I know loved 'Sex and the City.' They'll take it to their grave, but they watched every episode of it.
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People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of a city of over a million. That has to be addressed and it has to be done so in a sober-minded way.
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The opening solo on 'Once in Royal David's City' is still the most dramatic radio moment of the year.
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Damon has emerged as a major celebrity in our city. To combine him with his Hall of Fame brother it makes for an even more special event.
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If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.
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New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.
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The perpetuation of gangster rap has really put a negative image on the city of Compton... So I look forward to addressing that image, changing it and making it more accurate.
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Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.
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The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.
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I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
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I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
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If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.
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Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.
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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.
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This area will be a city someday. All of that land is either spoken for or is being entitled, so we were fortunate to get in early.
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Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker.
