Cities Quotes - Page 33

• The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Air, Earth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.371, Library of America

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• When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-ered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Mother, Rain, Thinking

  Robinson Jeffers (1965). “Selected poems”, Vintage

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• The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

  E. Nesbit

  I Love Him, Tree, Dull

  Edith Nesbit, “Child's Song In Spring”

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• There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Country, Garden, House

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

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• Walsall have given City more than one anxious moment amongst many anxious moments

  Denis Law

  Soccer, Moments, Given

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• A win tonight is the minimum City must achieve

  Alan Parry

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• I don't really believe in targets, because my next target is to beat Stoke City

  Ron Wylie

  Soccer, Believe, Target

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• It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.

  Pat Cash

  Opportunity, Giving, Tennis

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• Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

  Cleopatra

  Leadership, Kings, Women

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• The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Leadership, Women, Independent

  Phyllis Schlafly (1967). “Safe--not sorry”, Pere Marquette Pr

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• Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heaven, London, Hell

  'Peter Bell the Third' (1819) pt. 3, st. 1

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• The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

  Nancy Travis

  Independent, Doctors, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi... all of a sudden this city will start to go. In a flash, the buildings will crumble. Over the Tokyo streets will fall my China, like ash, leaching into everything it touches. Slowly, gradually, until nothing remains. No, this isn't a place for me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Ashes, Subway

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• I stood within the city disinterred;
  And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls
  Of spirits passng through the streets;
  and heard the Mountain's slumberous voice at intervals
  Thrill through those roofless halls;
  The oracular thunder penetrating shook
  The listening soul in my suspended blood.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Light, Blood, Voice

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.544

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• If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully interesting!

  Oleg Romanishin

  Light, Interesting, Would Be

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• I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby. But I also believe that when a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels someone disrespected him, we have a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge that there's a hole in his heart, one that government programs alone may not be able to repair.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Heart, Gun

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, October 17, 2006.

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• In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

  Laura Miller

  Years, Focus, Campaigns

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• In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

  Thomas Menino

  Fighting, Boston, Community

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• They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.

  Teri Hatcher

  Home, Thinking, Safe

  "Music stars' hearts are with Katrina victims". www.today.com. September 2, 2005.

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• There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

  Jaime Lerner

  Creativity, Tree, Littles

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• The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany.

  Markus Wolf

  Powerful, Heart, Europe

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• Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Family, Daughter, Technology

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• Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Family, Men, Sacred

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• If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

  Eric Bogosian

  Thinking, Would Be, Freak

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• A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.

  Susette La Flesche

  Children, Struggle, Men

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