Cities Quotes - Page 17

• And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others is often more beneficial than is receiving help. . . . We need the give and the take, we need to belong. An ideology of extreme personal freedom can be dangerous because it encourages people to leave homes, jobs, cities and marriages in search of personal and professional fulfillment, thereby breaking the relationships that were probably their best hope for such fulfillment.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Jobs, Home, Caring

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• Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

  Italo Calvino

  Memories, Redundant, Repeats

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  New Orleans, Kansas City, Style

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• I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.

  Tom Ridge

  New York, Thinking, Done

  "Ridge: Alert to remain orange through the week". Interview with Bill Hemmer, cnn.com. December 30, 2003.

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• Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the three heavens within the celestial kingdom. With few exceptions this is the salvation of which the scriptures speak. It is the salvation which the saints seek. (Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed., Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966, p. 670.)

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Lakes, Heaven, Exaltation

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• From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solidly atop it a skewed rendition of crenellated building bricks. The orange street lamps are crumpled toffee-wrappers glued to lollipop sticks.

  Ian Rankin

  Children, Sleep, Orange

  Ian Rankin (2010). “Dead Souls: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. But, as with Belfast it took me years to penetrate its outer ugliness and dourness, so with Dublin it took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

  Louis MacNeice

  Home, Years, Names

  "The strings are false: an unfinished autobiography".

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• Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as it's controlled by corporations. Brothers and sisters, we are not going to allow these streets to be taken over by the Democrats or the Republicans. Because it's all of us who have built this city, and we can tear it down unless they give us what we need.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Country, Brother, Taken

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• What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.

  Kabir

  Ends, Found, Apartment

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

  Maxine Waters

  Resources, Congress, Mayors

  "Los Angeles Times Interview : Maxine Waters : Veteran Legislator Makes People Angry-but She's Never Ignored". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. May 16, 1993.

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• Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Home, Shopping, Citizens

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• I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of heights, claustrophobia... only in cities, though, never in the country.

  Jimmy Page

  Country, Drunk, Flying

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• It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy I could travel to the seacoasts with, a boy I'd like to meet up with in foreign cities like Calcutta and London and Brazil, a boy I could trust who also had a good sense of humor and liked smoked oysters from a can and good weed and the occasional 40 ounces of malt. If I was going to be alone for the rest of my life this was the person I wanted to be alone with.

  Russell Banks

  Weed, Kids, Boys

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• New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.

  Colson Whitehead

  New York, Example, Cab

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• To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

  Colson Whitehead

  New York, Self, Trying

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• Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting:   the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

  Frank Norris

  Interesting, Would Be, Stories

  Frank Norris, Donald Pizer (1986). “Novels and Essays”, p.1112, Library of America

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• Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are 'story cities'- New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco.

  Frank Norris

  New York, Nashville, San Francisco

  Frank Norris, Joseph R. McElrath, Douglas K. Burgess (1996). “The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898”, American Philosophical Society

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• I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected him from your city.

  Pat Robertson

  Remember You, Remembers You, Dover

  "Robertson: God May Smite Down Town That Voted Out Anti-Evolution School Board". www.foxnews.com. November 11, 2005.

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• It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.

  Carlos Tevez

  Regret, Wish, Clubs

  "Tevez: I want to leave Manchester City". www.mirror.co.uk. July 4, 2011.

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• Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately.

  Chris Noth

  Sex, New York, Shoes

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• Dig: I'm Jewish. Count Basie's Jewish. Ray Charles is Jewish. Eddie Cantor's goyish. B'nai B'rith is goyish; Hadassah, Jewish.
  If you live in New York or any other big city, you are Jewish. It doesn't matter even if you're Catholic; if you live in New York, you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you're going to be goyish even if you're Jewish.

  Lenny Bruce

  New York, Catholic, Rays

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• The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Daughter, Men, Hands

  "Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1966.

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• Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

  Bill Janklow

  Jobs, New York, Fall

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• Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

  Mike Schmidt

  Reading, Agony, Next Day

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• There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.

  Sebastian Coe

  Needs, May, Stones

  "Coe replaces Cassani in London bid", www.cnn.com. May 19, 2004.

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