Cities Quotes
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You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red - they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.
Vincent Tan -
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.
Teju Cole
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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.
Paul Goldberger -
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.
William Jennings Bryan -
How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.
Cyprian Ekwensi -
Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.
Zeno of Citium -
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.
Horace Greeley -
We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.
Mick Cornett -
We will never agree to give up Jerusalem, a united city under Israeli sovereignty, and only Israeli. We will not accept a terrorist Palestinian state, we will not accept an agreement based on the 67 lines.
Naftali Bennett -
I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.
William Julius Wilson -
What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.
Ian Blair
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New York City pretty much reeked of music. Reeked of rap and hip-hop. As for me, growing up in a strict West Indian, Trinidadian household, and a Christian household as well, I had to fight for the right to go and actually be a part of it.
Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest -
Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
Philip James Bailey -
Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.
Hilary Mantel -
When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of cities.
Elena Ferrante -
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.
Rita Moreno -
Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
Willie Stargell
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In London, it's hard for me to wear anything more colorful than black. When I'm in Rome, I dress up in white. When I'm in Paris, I became a Parisian. Striped T-shirt, Chanel. It's funny!
Alessandra Mastronardi -
I have been to Tokyo and several other cities, but I have never been to Yamaguchi Prefecture. I wonder what it is like, what interesting things it has to offer. I am sure that Prime Minister [ Shinzō] Abe will tell me all about it.
Vladimir Putin -
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.
Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons -
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.
S. J. Perelman