Cities Quotes - Page 15

• God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies,
  Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty.
  We try to cry, but still they all die,
  I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Hip Hop, Drug

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• New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Witty, New York, Rap

  Song: Simon Says, Album: Internal Affairs

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• We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits,
  Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.

  Ras Kass

  Rap, Hip Hop, Suits

  Song: Soul On Ice

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• Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Responsibility, Numbers

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “October 1, 1931, to March 4, 1933”

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• Being a resident of the city and spending most of my time in the city, I've always been perplexed with how people could say there's nothing to do and nothing going on in Detroit, and how could you raise your family in Detroit. My reality is that I hang around with some of the most interesting creative people in the world, people doing things that could only be done in Detroit.

  Brian Boyle

  Reality, People, Interesting

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• His background and knowledge can't be transplanted overnight, ... I'd make a point that unless you sat on the throne, you don't know what it's like to be king. In reality there are a lot of things that you do and people you influence that other people don't see and that impact is there for the city.

  Jeri Ryan

  Kings, Reality, Impact

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• The reality is this city will not be the same for a while, ... We're not saying bring New Orleans back today.

  Ray Nagin

  Reality, New Orleans, Today

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• This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives poor in my city. I wanted to make a social experiment putting in the same car several people from different social classes, just to see what would happen.

  Jonathan Jakubowicz

  Reality, Class, People

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• The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, Reality, Shining

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• It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality of children orphaned by AIDS the transition from village life to city life.

  Laura Thielen

  Children, Reality, Issues

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• We should figure out how to do this so that some parents don't feel disenfranchised, angry and upset. It says a lot about the state of where we are in the city, the role of parents and the reality of small school and combining schools.

  Lisa Randall

  School, Reality, Parent

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• This is critical to the region. Every other major city has public transportation going downtown. We have a world-class airport now, and this could be an important additional piece to the airport development. This is a significant investment and one that should be seen as a significant long-term commitment to making this a reality.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Commitment, Reality, Airports

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• The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

  William Penn

  Country, Men, Littles

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then spread to the much larger unit of the nation, and finally from the nation to mankind as a whole.

  Corliss Lamont

  Family, Feelings, Firsts

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.

  Zaha Hadid

  School, Thinking, Space

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• When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

  Laozi

  Country, Fear, Enemy

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• I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Ghetto, Political, Politics

  In Detroit Free Press 19 Oct. 1968

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• Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

  Richard J. Daley

  Government, Perfection, Political

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• They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.

  Doug Larson

  Lying, Men, Should Have

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• I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

  Robert MacNeil

  Retirement, New York, Thinking

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• The city is going to survive, we are going to get through it, It's going to be very, very difficult time. I don't think we yet know the pain that we're going to feel when we find out who we lost, but the thing we have to focus on now is getting this city through this, and surviving and being stronger for it.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Pain, Thinking, Focus

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• Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused horrendous casualty, I wish to express, on behalf of the Chinese Government and people, our deepest sympathy and solicitude to you and, through you, to the Government and people of the United States. I wish also to extend our condolences to the families of the victims. The Chinese Government has consistently condemned and rejected all forms of terrorist violence.

  Jiang Zemin

  New York, Condolences, Government

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• [New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just as the character of the people who live here will not be altered by this tragedy.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Character, Essence

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• Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots in a mosaic, but each had a separate narrative starting a few months or a lifetime earlier and finishing that day in the New York City Marathon, the race with 37,000 stories.

  Mark Sutcliffe

  Running, New York, Race

  Mark Sutcliffe (2013). “Why I Run: The Remarkable Journey of the Ordinary Runner”, p.70, eBookIt.com

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