City Quotes
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Singapura means lion-city; prehistoric, myopic, Sanskrit-speaking visitors having spotted a mangy tiger or two in the mangroves. Sly Malays sometimes call it Singa pura-pura, which means ‘pretending to be a lion’….It is a profoundly provincial town pretending to be a metropolis.
Anthony Burgess
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My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
Maria Monk
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It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall.
Jim Parsons
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I come from West London. I support a football team there called Queens Park Rangers, whom I'd like to give a shout-out to. I'm a die-hard Rangers fan. I think that I would always hopefully have a strong connection to and live in London, because it's a brilliant city.
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
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I remember my first night in L.A. I was sitting outside, looking out at the city and thinking, 'I don't know anyone.' I just approached it as a big adventure. I still think of it that way.
Luke Bracey
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Quebec City, Canada: 'A rotten priest-ridden community who are the completest passengers & who won't do their bit in anything & of course not during the war !!' (23 Aug 1919)
Edward VIII
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If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.
John Kruk
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Why are some people like Chuck Schumer, who`s probably going to be leader of the Senate, why is he switching from a big city financial center pro-trader to being an anti-trader? Is that because of upstate New York? What`s going on? I can`t figure this out.
Chris Matthews
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When you get out of school, you just go where the wind blows: Here's an audition; there's an audition. And before you know it, you're where you're supposed to be. And that was Second City.
Jane Lynch
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I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.
Elizabeth Berg
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When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.
Aleksa Palladino
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Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.
Jonathan Raban
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Cities are complex and contain just about any thing or concept ever invented by humans. How the city is built, its topography, and how close you live to your work and a grocery store affects your mobility.
Jens Martin Skibsted
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Stout men, not stout walls, make a well-held city.
Andre Norton
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I was born on September 30, 1939, in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was very interested in music, played the piano and the organ, and became, later, having given up the bakery, the organist of the city. My mother Marie kept the house and the shop.
Jean-Marie Lehn
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It is important that when we rebuild this historic city that we consider the safety of the citizens first.
Dennis Hastert
