Quotes about cities
cities liberty earth
TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty. Walt Whitman
cities liberty earth
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.
cities citizens interest
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
cities chicago protection
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. Saul Bellow
cities voice tables
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is. Rory Bremner
cities littles fargo
There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see Little Indian, Big City, I will never let you read one of my reviews again. Roger Ebert
cities together wish
If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney. Robin McKinley
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 ideas numbers
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas. William Hazlitt
cities political politics
I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion. William E. Gladstone
cities government office
From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
cities goal balance
The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside. Wendell Berry
cities toronto earth
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness. Wyndham Lewis
cities paris my-favorite
I really love Paris. It's my favorite city. Wolfgang Puck
cities city-planning limits
In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed. Willis Polk
cities calm cemetery
I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery. Yehuda Amichai
cities jerusalem eternity
Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
cities black
I like doing business in a black city. Yaphet Kotto
cities yale tuition
I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition. Robert Klein
cities government should
Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it? Richard M. Daley
cities space people
As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we preserve these spaces while they are still available, we will have none to preserve. Richard M. Nixon
cities smarter productive
Denser cities are smarter and more productive Richard Florida
cities white snow
Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city. Roald Dahl
cities juxtaposition
Cities are about juxtaposition. Richard Rogers
cities city-planning architecture
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
cities two gambling
Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana. Richard Rodriguez
cities mexican bourgeoisie
What has happened in the last generation is that Tijuana has become a new Third World capital - much to the chagrin of Mexico City, which is more and more aware of how little it controls Tijuana politically and culturally. In addition to whorehouses and discos, Tijuana now has Korean factories and Japanese industrialists and Central American refugees, and a new Mexican bourgeoisie that takes its lessons from cable television.
cities people teeth
The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go. Tamora Pierce
cities world nests
Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush? Tad Williams
cities paris proud
Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city. Tadao Ando
cities venice water
[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola. Sylvia Pankhurst
cities wicked bell-jar
Don't let the wicked city get you down. Sylvia Plath