Cities Quotes - Page 35

• The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in St. Louis. It was a stunning moment because not only were the Tigers winning a world championship that meant so much to an entire city, they were beating the best pitcher I ever saw-Bob Gibson.

  Ernie Harwell

  Single Mom, Winning, Games

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• The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car

  Kim Edwards

  Losing Control, Car, Vastness

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.410, Penguin

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• Someone should have a record that doesn't have any singing. It's my favorite Miles Davis record. I love hanging out in the summer, in New York, when it's miserably hot. I love electric Miles Davis in the summer. Jack Johnson, the songwriting especially, is a premier example of that. It always makes me feel hot in the city. It's also nice to have something not yelling in your ear. For me, as a lyricist, it's nice to put on something without any words.

  Craig Finn

  Summer, New York, Nice

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• While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also express their own distinctive ethos or values. The Spirit of Cities takes the reader on a wide-ranging and lively personal journey.

  Witold Rybczynski

  Journey, Ethos, World

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• Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Building, Gateways

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• Fighting men are the city's fortress.

  Alcaeus

  Fighting, Men, Fortresses

  "Fragments". Book by Alcaeus (Fragment XXII),

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• Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Paris, Care, Firsts

  Carl Van Vechten (1922). “Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works”

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• I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

  Ben Lerner

  Would Be, Way, Irony

  Ben Lerner (2014). “10:04: A Novel”, p.4, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

  Henry Williamson

  Cities In The World, Experience, World

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• You, me, this city, this country, we will always have a choice.When you stand up to be counted, tell the world, THIS IS MY VOICE. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

  Shane Koyczan

  Country, Voice, Choices

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• Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Hero, Fighting, Tragedy

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.28, Penguin

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• There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.

  Janine Benyus

  Ecosystems, Copying, Three

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• When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.

  Janine Benyus

  Forests, Sustainability, Knows

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• I want gaming to be something that everybody does, because they understand that games can be a real solution to problems and a real source of happiness. I want games to be something everybody learns how to design and develop, because they understand that games are a real platform for change and getting things done. And I want families, schools, companies, industries, cities, countries, and the whole world to come together to play them, because we’re finally making games that tackle real dilemmas and improve real lives.

  Jane McGonigal

  Country, Real, School

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• It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Home, Thinking, Years

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• At one time I was praying for the salvation of sinners, and the Saviour appeared on the cross by me, and talked with me; I laid my hand on his mangled body, and looked up in his smiling face. Another time I was meditating upon the love of God in giving his only Son to die for sinners, and of the beautiful home he was preparing for those who love him, and I seemed to float away, and was set down in the Beautiful City. Oh, the glorious sight that met my view can never be expressed by mortal tongue

  Maria Woodworth-Etter

  Beautiful, Home, Son

  Maria Woodworth-Etter (1997). “Signs & Wonders”, p.10, Whitaker House

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• Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.

  Andrew Lincoln

  Atlanta

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

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• New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.

  Margot Robbie

  New York, Sleep, Never Sleep

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

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• Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've learnt that the principles of moving around a big city are the same everywhere; only the people and streets are different.

  Michael Urie

  Moving, People, Trying

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• I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.

  Michael Urie

  Middle

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• From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We have always been in halves. As long as we invent and progress in mechanical things and not in love, we shall not achieve happiness.

  Jean Giono

  Long, House, Progress

  Jean Giono (2013). “Blue Boy”, p.150, Read Books Ltd

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• There was reason for STILLMAN'S EXTREME SECRECY. HE WAS PREPARING TO EXTEND THE CITY BANK'S POWER OVER THE EARTH AND FULLY RECOGNIZED THAT THIS AMBITION WOULD DRAW HIM INTO THE WEB OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL INTRIGUE AND ESPIONAGE

  George B. Cortelyou

  Ambition, Earth, Reason

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• There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

  Isaac Hanson

  Lovely, World, Impossible

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• The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill.

  Dahr Jamail

  America, United States, Brutality

  Dahr Jamail (2016). “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq”, p.239, Haymarket Books

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• Why did New York feel more like home to me than home did? I'd heard of love at first sight, but I didn't know it could happen with a whole city.

  Lisa Mangum

  New York, Home, Sight

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