Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Alan Moore

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

Alan Moore

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Alan Hansen

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Alan Bean

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

Alan Autry

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley,

Alan Autry

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Alaina Huffman

If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.

Jim Reuter

We want people transported downtown, to downtown South Elgin.

Michael Bergin

We were a loud, extended family. My grandparents had a store in downtown Waterbury called International Foods, and my grandmother runs it to this day.

Bob Hopkins

We're expecting some winds gusting up to around 50 miles an hour in the downtown and West Anchorage later today and this evening.

Eric Swanson

We're really excited about implementing these possible improvements in the downtown area,

Andy Ramirez

A lot of times they only come here when they have to get gas and have to get something to eat. Hopefully, it'll help the downtown area, too.

Maureen Pero

It's not like downtown is doing horrible but everything around us is doing great. I mean, they're vacant in Centerville and Beavercreek and other places and north of town at the same level we're vacant. So it's a regional problem, it's not just downtown.

Mark Jackson

You can't just rely on the downtown businesses. You have to get people from every part of your town active.

Laura Muir

The Rep will be the first new professional theatre to be constructed downtown. We see this expansion downtown as solidifying our position as a leader in the cultural, social and economic life of the city.

David Ward

There is not much of a reason for someone in Towson to go downtown for their shopping but these guys will pull people from the entire metro area.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Bob Trisolini

It's one of the most lavish shows I've worked on other than shows in New York and on Broadway. There is quite an investment in production values.

Rick Baker

I told them I would support their move to do that, ... I thought it was an investment in goodwill.

Simon Davies

This is to do with stabilizing trust in trade and investment and has nothing to do with privacy protection.

Steve Swasey

It was derided by a number of people in the investment community.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Kenneth Roth

Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks

Jan Egeland

North American pets get more investment per month than we have money for all our humanitarian operations in the world.

Vasco Moreno

After what we've seen from the U.S. investment banks, expectations are pretty high. If they don't produce the results, then that could be a problem.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

China Mieville

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

Lady Gaga

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Caspar David Friedrich

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

Bob Geldof

It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

Edward Gorey

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

Eric Small

As San Antonio is to breast cancer, we want this to be for prostate cancer.

Ray Durham

I told the (team) I'm going to come back. I like everyone here. I like everything about San Francisco.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Hilary Clinton

As I understood it, it was not, no,

Joan Van Ark

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Daniel Johnston

To understand and be understood is to be free.

Stephen Covey

Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.