Cities Quotes - Page 26

• I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Son, Age, Algeria

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

  Richard Ernst

  Father, Teaching, School

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• I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.

  Alain Vigneault

  Player, Lakes, Nhl

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• What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

  Walter Karp

  Powerful, Military, Needs

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• It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Civilization, Firsts, Grew Up

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• I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

  Eddie Huang

  Needs, Culture, Walks

  "Q & A With Eddie Huang + Watch Episode 2 and 3 of Fresh Off The Boat L.A. Installment". Interview with Besha Rodell, www.laweekly.com. December 18, 2012.

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• I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

  Jack Irons

  Couple, Journey, Europe

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• La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.

  Phil Keoghan

  Bolivia, Extraordinary

  "Meet Phil Keoghan: 'Amazing' host, amazing experiences". Interview with Laura Bly, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 25, 2008.

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• I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

  Emir Kusturica

  New York, Airports, Years

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• I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

  Emir Kusturica

  People, Democracy, Citizens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

  Polly Adler

  Father, Real, Doctors

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.9, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

  Samuel Palmer

  Pleasure, Poetry Is

  Palmer, Samuel (1985). “The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer”, Manchester : Carcanet with MidNAG

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• I saw also the relationship between the two popes I saw how baleful (evil; harmful) would be the consequences of this false church. I saw it increase in size; heretics of every kind came into the city (of Rome) Once more I saw the Church of Peter was undermined by a plan evolved by the secret sect (Masonry), while storms were damaging it.

  Anne Catherine Emmerich

  Rome, Two, Evil

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• And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.

  Vito Fossella

  Facts, Terrorism, Resources

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• Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.

  Vito Fossella

  New York, Vacation, Police

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• The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water

  Raquel Cepeda

  Travel, Wall, Ocean

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• Manchester City are defending like beavers

  Chris Kamara

  Beavers, Manchester, Manchester City

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• In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.

  Edward Everett

  Summer, Government, Design

  Edward Everett (1868). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.628

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• One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.

  Gerald Brenan

  Happiness, Happy, Country

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• My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

  Ron Reagan

  Beautiful, Morning, Air

  "Interview With Justin Falconer; Interview With Ron Reagan Jr". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Military, Hands, Brutality

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

  Bernadette Peters

  Giving Up, Home, Animal

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• I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.

  Whitfield Diffie

  New York, Paris, Uc Berkeley

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• When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

  Laozi

  Horse, War, Taoism

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