Cities Quotes
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Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.
Eleanor Clark
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No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.
Erik Larson
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When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
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Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.
Saadi
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I live in Sydney now. I came here for the show and never went home - I do like it, it's a big change... it's a big city, it's very fast.
Kate DeAraugo
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If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.
Harvey Milk
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I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default "getaway" city.
Carrot Top
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In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.
Enrique Penalosa
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I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.
Erin Cummings
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People care. Their hearts are open, but people don't know exactly what the Dreamers are going through, or what sanctuary cities are for, or what's positive about the American Muslim community. When you don't know a lot, you can't do a lot.
Van Jones
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.
Paul Auster
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And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.
Vito Fossella
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San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.
Cecil Beaton
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Fifty-thousand were gathered March,27th,1933 in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about seven other American cities. At each supportive rally, thousands huddled around loudspeakers waiting for the Garden event, which would be broadcast live via radio to 200 additional cities across the country. At least 1 million Jews were participating nationwide. Perhaps another million Americans of non-Jewish descent heritage stood with them.
Edwin Black
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“When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California.”
Alex Prager
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I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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L.A. is such a big city, and theres so much going on. I mean, you know youre in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time.
Cassie Steele
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Cities don’t make people poor; they attract poor people.
Edward Glaeser
