Cities Quotes - Page 21

• London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

  William Dunbar

  Art, Flower, Joy

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• It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.

  George VI

  Wall, People, May

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• There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Sea, Two

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.418, Northwestern University Press

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• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

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• It's been amazing getting to go from city to city and perform for thousands of people. It's an amazing feeling, and the energy is crazy.

  Austin Mahone

  Crazy, People, Feelings

  "Are 'The most humble people', Austine Mahone says" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. June 11, 2013.

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• The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Texas, Play

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Thinking, Gold, Purpose

  "The Importance Of Gold Now And After The Complete Victory Of Socialism". Pravda No. 251, November 6-7, 1921. Collected Works, Volume 33, pages 109-116, www.marxists.org.

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• If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they’ve been. If I see a city I see it’s living ghostliness—the stray looks, the dying hands. I see it’s needs and its discomforts locked in apartments.

  Dionne Brand

  Air, Hands, Dying

  Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.122, Vintage Canada

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• Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

  Dionne Brand

  People, Lost, Deliberate

  Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.78, Vintage Canada

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• I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors who count take responsibility for a map which is addressed to travellers of the earth, the world, and the spirit. Each issue is composed as a map of this land and this glory, images of our cities and of our politics must join our poetry. I want a nation in which discourse is active and scholarship is understood as it should be, the mode of our understanding and the ground of our derivations.
  -Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967)

  Robin Blaser

  Believe, Responsibility, Issues

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• Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Italian, Philadelphia, Community

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.67, Penguin

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• The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.

  Lewis Mumford

  Age, Building, Vehicle

  Lewis Mumford (1964). “The High Way and the City”, New American Library of Canada

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• City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur

  Gavin Newsom

  Loss, Government, Order

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• San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

  Gavin Newsom

  Home, San Francisco, Evening

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• As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected

  Gavin Newsom

  Hard Work, Men, San Francisco

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• San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

  Gavin Newsom

  Beautiful, Cities In The World, Jewels

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• As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy

  Gavin Newsom

  San Francisco, Government, Support

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• As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options

  Gavin Newsom

  Beautiful, Hard Work, San Francisco

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• First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, Team, People

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• To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Kings, War, Mean

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

  Rachel Maddow

  Needs, Shortcuts, Reset

  "Rachel Maddow & Susan Mikula At Home In Massachusetts" By Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

  James A. Michener

  Conquer, Horsemen

  James A. Michener (2014). “Poland: A Novel”, p.84, Dial Press

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• Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.

  Caetano Veloso

  Built, Knows, Destroyed

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• To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

  John Knox

  Order, Justice, Empires

  1558 First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.

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• The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

  Alfred Doblin

  Home, Men, Groups

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