Cities Quotes - Page 31

• People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

  Heraclitus

  Life, Wall, Fighting

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.76, Penguin

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• This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Nature, Eye

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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• To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with food.

  Gael Greene

  Dream, Food, Chef

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• Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God had doomed this city to destruction as a polluted city, and was resolved to purge His sanctuary by fire, that He cut off these their great defenders and well-wishers; while those that a little before had worn the sacred garments and presided over the public worship, and had been esteemed venerable by those that dwelt in the whole habitable earth, were cast out naked, and seen to be the food of dogs and wild beasts."

  Frederic Farrar

  Dog, Cutting, Thinking

  Frederic William Farrar (1891). “The Sweet Story of Jesus: The Life of Christ”

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• And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?

  Sherman Alexie

  Love, Wine, Blood

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• But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Imagination

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.657, Wordsworth Editions

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• New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.

  Barbara Walters

  New York, Moving, Adventure

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• It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . . . Christmas trees . . . but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.

  Paul Gallico

  Beauty, Party, Office

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• Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of forest from development, leading to the loss of 30,000 lumber-related jobs and the annual loss of 1.1 billion board feet of lumber. This has driven up the cost of houses by at least $4,000 each. In addition, regulators ordered a Kansas City bank to install a Braille keypad on its drive-through automatic teller machine, presumably to aid any blind drivers. The list goes on and on.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Business, Loss

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• Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.

  Wes Montgomery

  Night, Men, Kansas

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• At the last minute, from what I can gather, either Emmanuel Adebayor or his agent phoned us after they had agreed a deal with City and then did the same with Chelsea. He was desperate to get to either Chelsea or us.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Emmanuel, Agents

  "Emmanuel Adebayor was 'desperate' not to join Manchester City, claims Sir Alex Ferguson" by Mikey Stafford, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2009.

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• There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Winning, Expectations

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• I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, White, Community

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• Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Father, Leader

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.87, Beacon Press

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• Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks.

  Pablo Neruda

  Time, Heart, Sadness

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• Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
  I could see the city light
  Wind was blowing, time stood still
  Eagle flew out of the night
  He was something to observe
  Came in close, I heard a voice
  Standing stretching every nerve
  I had to listen, had no choice

  Peter Gabriel

  Time, Night, Light

  Song: Solsbury Hill

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• Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River. The peak is a coiled dragon, the city a crouching tiger more dazzling than before. The sky is spinning and the earth upside down. We are elated yet we must use our courage to chase the hopeless enemy. We must not stoop to fame like the overlord Hsiang Yu. If heaven has feeling it will grow old and watch our seas turn into mulberry fields.

  Mao Zedong

  Courage, Rain, Yellow

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• I never travel across this great nation without experiencing a feeling of gratitude and thanksgiving for all that we have and are. As I see its broad fruitful farms, its humming factories, its gleaming cities, certainly it is easy to realize that we have achieved unequaled material progress in this great country.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Gratitude, Feelings

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• Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Morning, People, Parks

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• I have always thought, "If the city cannot come to the country, then the country must come to the city."

  Jens Jensen

  Country, Ifs

  "Siftings".

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• Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.

  Charles Loring Brace

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  "The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them".

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• Terror attacks in Mumbai have grown due to increase in the population of the north Indians in the city.

  Raj Thackeray

  Terror Attacks, Population, Mumbai

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• In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.

  Wilfred Burchett

  People, Dying, Bombs

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• Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Squash, Monsters

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• The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

  Paul Vixie

  War, Lasts, Limits

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