Famous Quotes & Sayings

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

Jaime Lerner

Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.

Jaime Lerner

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

Jaime Lerner

Brazil will change when its cities change.

James G. Frazer

The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.

Geoffrey West

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

Geoffrey West

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.

Kathie Pontus

How many small cities like ours can claim the fame of having had a Nobel Prize winner come from their city and school system? Plus, there are the others who are giving us good reasons to be proud of our city and history.

Jacques Rogge

I do not like the word 'rejection' but those cities we have not retained this in no way reflects that we do not trust these countries.

David Rakoff

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Jerry McSwords

Grove City is good. It will be a battle. They match up with us relatively well. They graduated a lot of seniors last year, but it will be a good match.

Mike McCarthy

Getting the lights has nothing to do with the city of Mechanicville so we haven't contacted them. Our counsel's review of the matter said we don't have to pay for them. Right now there are differing opinions as to who does. We're working them out.

Paul Briggs

Frankly, it is not really clear to me where the demand would come from to fill a tower, especially of that size. I don't see how, economically, it works. I think for the mayor to come out and say the city needs more office space -- it really shows he is out of touch with the (real estate market).

Gary LaGrange

From a commercial and psychological standpoint, this is five stars. This shows the people of New Orleans their city is back in business.

Jeremy Paul

From a political standpoint, the city might be better off trying to reach some settlement with the homeowners.

Alexander Garvin

From that point on, his plan was very clear how the city should progress.

Paul Walters

Furthermore, it justifies the significant investment in the event by title sponsors Dunlop and hosting partner Manchester City Council .

Susan Tully

I don't think a city should ever be involved in helping to find employment for illegal aliens.

Robert Elliott

These companies and many smaller Delta Dental groups may be unable to update their eligibility and/or pay premiums for some time, so we're going to step up to help them from our end. These groups can focus on recovery and let us worry about paying claims and covering the dental needs of their employees and family members.

Todd Clark

If that's taken out you're going to have a lot of people claim that we have bottomed. That's the key.

Geoff Mulgan

Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.

John Danforth

We were all set to get a U.S. government plane, ... fly Bashir and Garang to Washington for the State of the Union and claim the success of the Naivasha peace talks -- that was nine months ago, there is no reason why this is dragging on.

E. O. Wilson

We don't have open and honest discussions about the sexuality in our communities, and what we get out of that is people being unable to claim the truth of their lives.

Yahya Jammeh

Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.

Colin Morgan

From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.

Trey Thibodeaux

We are glad parish has stepped forward to claim what is rightfully theirs. I hope they put the money to good use.

Amos Oz

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

Gil Brandt

When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Tallia Cahoon

The ore started giving out. That's when we left.

Jake Peavy

The orthopedics said they were not good giving shots in the mouth.

O. Singh

We will be giving visas from January and the Pakistani consulate in Mumbai will also be functioning by that time,

Larry Beets

This was sort of like our Cinderella, to come through here 1-0 and hold them after the pounding they've been giving to people. But you give credit. We got the pitches, and we made the plays defensively.

Thomas a Kempis

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

Orson Scott Card

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

Robert Kiyosaki

My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less.

David Eger

I've always said there are a handful of stars out here, but there are also 70 or so very good players who could always win. If you're good enough to play out here, you're good enough to win.

Dusty Baker

I've always said it's harder to get a good leadoff man than anything,

Frances Jones

I've always wanted to volunteer to do something significant. Today's a very good time for me to do it.

Vinny Castilla

I've always (wanted) to play in San Diego. It's a great city, and I have a lot of friends there. I always hit good in San Diego, too.

Mike Trgovac

I've always thought that if you do a good job people will notice you. I don't self promote myself or all that.

Michael Redhill

I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.

Lovie Smith

I've always liked him. I think he'll be a very good player in the league someday.

Robyn Hitchcock

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

Warren Fields

I've always been good with numbers and good at getting numbers to where people could understand them. I never thought I would make a good (certified public accountant) though.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Matt Watson

I'm very proud of the guys. We swam very well when we could've just showed up, we showed a lot of pride.

Alex Kingston

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

Alex Grey

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

Albert Shanker

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

Debi Thomas

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

E. L. Konigsburg

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

E. L. Konigsburg

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

E. M. Forster

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

Drew Carey

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

Doug E. Fresh

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

Jim Jarmusch

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Philippa Gregory

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

James May

It's a small step in the right direction.