Quotes about cities
cities legs marching movement people protest rather
It can give a movement like this legs that it wouldn't have had 10 years ago, ... Today, protest is decentralized. You don't have to get 100,000 people marching on Washington. But you can get 10,000 people in 10 different cities rather quickly.
cities city connecting delta focused lake largely markets meeting north open past salt service south utah visitor
Having this service to Salt Lake City will open a new world of visitor and meeting markets for us, not only in Utah but for all the connecting cities Delta serves. In the past we focused largely north and south for visitors. Now we can look to the east. John Cooper
cities community cooperation crime effort ensure gun help illegal leadership local programs rise states violence
Gun violence is on the rise in many of our cities today, and illegal gun trafficking from neighboring states is a big part of the problem. We need a coordinated effort to ensure partnership and cooperation with prosecution, community programs and crime prevention. We need leadership from the federal, state and local levels, as well as help from our neighboring states. Deval Patrick
cities facility jobs opportunity people rebuild small
It is so important that we have an opportunity to rebuild the cities with small businesses, with those transitional jobs for people who can come out of a corrections facility and get a job. Maureen Forrester
cities feet tree
When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty. Renzo Piano
cities july republic
I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. Ruben Blades
cities unexpected-gifts tree
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers. Truman Capote
cities ambitious orchestra
Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra Vanessa Carlton
cities taste architecture
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt. Robert Moses
cities likes rooms
He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor. Robert Scheer
cities suffering together
In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan. Sarah Vowell
cities space people
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more Sara Paretsky
cities two rivers
In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
cities rivers nymphs
The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
cities want letting-you-go
The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to. Wallace Stevens
cities joy soul
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen? William Henry Hudson
cities san-francisco know-how
The City that knows how. William Howard Taft
cities issues interesting
A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior. Will Wright
cities culture artistic
Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities. Warren Ellis
cities community want
I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress. Warren Christopher
cities lines rhyme
A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits. Vladimir Mayakovsky
cities landscape rooms
The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room. Walter Benjamin
cities names rivers
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive. William Blake
cities people chasing
If you are a Jedi, just understand something: people are going to be chasing you. The Jedi Council of every city you enter is going to be chasing you. I've been accosted by the Jedi Council in Rio and everywhere else. Samuel L. Jackson
cities boston age
It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.
cities numbers telephones
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain. W. G. Sebald
cities honor sorrow
We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow. W. H. Auden
cities soul holes
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
cities six said
Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns William Dalrymple
cities majestic castles
Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic. William Cobbett
cities landscape want
I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things in new ways and how to get along in places you don't already know inside out. I want to put some life in you... Tove Jansson
cities knowing champion
What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? Rocky Marciano
cities jet-planes noise
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.