Cities Quotes - Page 32

• Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft

  Mary Schmich

  New York, California, Sunscreen

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

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• Love is a heavenly quality that is given to prepare men to enjoy the heavenly city more.

  Jack Hyles

  Love Is, Men, Quality

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• The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid portrait of the practice of medicine everywhere. The special conditions that prevail in the countryside as opposed to the cities are examined, and each of these is illustrated by a case history that is as compelling as it is informative. It is presented in a highly readable form that would be accessible to the general public as well as to the deliverers of health care. I recommend it most highly.

  Richard Selzer

  Country, Doctors, Practice Of Medicine

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• In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Teacher, Philosophy

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• Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crowded calendar suddenly seem spacious. Three or four hours pass in a moment; I have no idea what time it is, because I never check the clock. If I chose to listen, I could hear the swish of taxis bound for downtown bars or the soft saxophone riffs that drift from a neighbor's window, but nothing gets through. I am suspended in a sensory deprivation tank, and the very lack of sensation is delicious.

  Anne Fadiman

  Sleep, Writing, Ideas

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.73, Macmillan

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• This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Life And Love, Block

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.140, Penguin

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• Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

  Hugh Newell Jacobsen

  Feet, Black, Television

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• There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

  Dan DeCarlo

  New York, Thinking, Three

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• Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

  John Hickenlooper

  Running, People, Trying

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• When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

  Ann Beattie

  New York, Distance, Doors

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• I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

  Ed O'Neill

  New York, People, Want

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• We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

  James Henry Breasted

  Land, America, Transformation

  James Henry Breasted (1919). “The Origins of Civilization”

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• As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Israel, Rome, Land

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• At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.

  Samuel West

  Jobs, Heart, People

  "Selby miners take an early bath" by David Ward, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2004.

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• But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

  Jane Byrne

  Strong, Opportunity, Citizens

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• The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Believe, Years, Mexico

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• For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?

  William Henry Hudson

  Joy, Soul, Religion

  William Henry Hudson (2010). “The Purple Land: Being One Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Oriental, in South America, as Told by Himself”, p.235, The Floating Press

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• Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

  Leonard Woodcock

  Spring, Cost Of Living, Differences

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• There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

  Jan Morris

  Vegas, Mountain, Desert

  Jan Morris (1985). “Journeys”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

  Norman Mailer

  Moon, Night, Vegas

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.256, Random House

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• Night falling on the city
  Quite something to behold
  Don't it just look so pretty
  This disappearing world

  David Gray

  Fall, Night, Looks

  Song: Disappearing World, Album: Life In Slow Motion, 2005

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• It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Cells, Honor

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• Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Glasses, Antiques, Woods

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• It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

  Kevin Garnett

  Believe, Next Day, People

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• Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a superb scene. I have pleasure in sending you this first dispatch ever telegraphed from an aerial station.

  Thaddeus S. C. Lowe

  War, Firsts, Pleasure

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