Cities Quotes
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don't grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
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After watching Watford against Manchester City last night
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Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
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It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"
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Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.
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Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.
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The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
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The whole function of cities has been transformed.
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The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
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I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.
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How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.
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Sometimes when I'm traveling, I feel a little bit dislocated, especially the transitions you make when you're traveling - you go to a different city every day.
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Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.
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The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
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The City that knows how.
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There are some cities that are doing good stuff, but there aren't enough of them. If you don't fight for what you want, then you deserve what you get. And in politics, if you don't ask, you don't get at all.
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And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.
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Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn't say that... I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It's just such a company town! You can't go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.
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No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.
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It's a blue-collar city Manchester that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.
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Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.
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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.
