Cities Quotes - Page 22

• There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Jobs, Kansas City, People

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• Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.

  M. John Harrison

  Dream, Paris, Vision

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• At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.

  M. John Harrison

  Girl, Heart, Insecure

  M. John Harrison (2007). “Viriconium”, p.34, Spectra

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• The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City!

  Che Guevara

  New York, Heart, Enemy

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• The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness

  J. Rufus Fears

  Acceptance, Endure, Testimony

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• The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems such as drug abuse and crime… A sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, but only as it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage.

  Michael Porter

  Crush, Jobs, America

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• My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

  Tayari Jones

  Children, Atlanta, Leaving

  "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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• A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations. At times, with today's advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America's cities, but the variety of practices is enormous. The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.

  Abraham Verghese

  Beautiful, Country, Caring

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• One day in 1959, when Huddersfield were playing Cardiff City, Tom (T.V.) Williams, who was then chairman of Liverpool, and Harry Latham, a director, came down the slope at Leeds Road to see me.
  Mr Williams said, 'How would you like to manage the best club in the country?'
  'Why, is Matt Busby packing it up?' I asked.

  Bill Shankly

  Country, One Day, Directors

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• This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Team, Two

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• The giant neon spinning discs are a reminder of the huge role that Sam Sniderman and his store played in the cultural life of Toronto and I believe they should be preserved and remounted in the interests of our city's heritage.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Believe, Giants, Roles

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• I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

  Orhan Pamuk

  People, Want, Psychological

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• New York City is my playground.

  Bethenny Frankel

  New York, Playgrounds, New York City

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• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  Oksana Baiul

  Fashion, Workout, New York

  Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet.

  Robert Hass

  Sweet, Justice, Water

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.

  Marco Polo

  Christian, Book, Believe

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• An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.

  Hernando Cortes

  Water, Purpose, Body

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• Oklahoma City bombing was done on purpose. Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system?

  Kent Hovind

  Oklahoma City, Government, People

  "Evolution: the Foundation for Communism, Nazism, Socialism, and the New World Order". Book by Kent Hovind, 2003.

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• The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can eat all the meat in Kansas City and still be nothing but a vegetable.

  Russell Baker

  Thinking, Vegetables, Kansas City

  Russell Baker (1990). “The rescue of Miss Yaskell, and other pipe dreams”, Plume

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• Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, New York, War

  "NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg endorses Barack Obama - US politics live" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2012.

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• New York City is the capital for Baseball, not just for the pros, but also for the kids throughout the city, as well. No matter who you root for, the Borough Cup is going to make every kid and community that participates a winner.

  Mark Teixeira

  Baseball, New York, Kids

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• What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of snow when all night long the only sounds you heard were dogs that parked at trains that passed so far away they took a short cut through your dreams and no one even woke. It was the war that changed that. It was. After the Great War for Civilization - sleep was different everywhere.

  Timothy Findley

  Dream, Dog, War

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• It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me.

  Vince Carter

  Fans, Looks, Want

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• From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop he fashions a compelling view of the Chicago Algren once called 'the dark city.' There's a unique quality to his essays which manage to be broodingly meditative even as their narrative drive keeps you turning pages.

  Stuart Dybek

  Fashion, Dark, Unique

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• It isnt easy to put all of the ingredients together and one of the key things is this is the first time theres been a real, significant governmental body participation. In our case, its Collin County and the City of Frisco, the Frisco Economic Development group and the Frisco Independent School District. Those bodies, and Hunt Sports Group, obviously, put money into the project, and that has helped make it work.

  Lamar Hunt

  Sports, Real, School

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