Cities Quotes - Page 36

• I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

  Bill de Blasio

  Real, Opportunity, Years

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

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• I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how to deal with climate change and prepare for future weather events.

  Bill de Blasio

  New York, Thinking, Weather

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

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• I think small business is struggling in New York City. It's a fantastic market, it's a very appealing market, there's lots of opportunity, at the same time it's a very difficult place to build a small business.

  Bill de Blasio

  New York, Struggle, Opportunity

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

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• In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.

  Ken Schoolland

  Tears, Trying, Might

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• The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

  Adolf Loos

  Wish, Vienna, Speak

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• Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Hotel

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• New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

  Colson Whitehead

  New York, Self, Doe

  Colson Whitehead (2018). “The Colossus of New York”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.

  Wendell Berry

  Goal, Balance, Indispensable

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

  Audre Lorde

  Able, Shouting

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.

  Thomas Adams

  Home, Mean, Average

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• God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is even blessed in Heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back. We should not allow anyone to govern our city [Cape Town] when we are ruling the country.

  Jacob Zuma

  Country, Jesus, Blessed

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• I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

  Anna Sui

  Next, Unexpected, Bigs

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• Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.

  Marc Morial

  Tasks, Done, Opponents

  "CNN Sunday Morning", www.cnn.com. May 21, 2006.

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• If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

  Antony Beevor

  Block, Perfect, Trying

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• Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills, people in this town expect an honest day's work, and I've it to them for a long, long time.

  Willie Stargell

  Real, Long, People

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• I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.

  Everett Ruess

  Stars, Tired, Sky

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• I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty

  Everett Ruess

  Stars, Mean, Intelligent

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• The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.

  Wellington Webb

  Empires, Century, States

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• I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.

  Arthur Cravan

  Country, Memories, Color

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• I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

  Ville Valo

  Europe, Firsts, Bigs

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• I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Dad, Oklahoma, Tulsa

  "DIVA TALK: A Chat with Piazza's Kelli O'Hara Plus News of Menzel, Haran and Lansbury". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 26, 2005.

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• Helen Crawfurd and the Women's Peace Crusade, made a march on the City Chambers, distributing an illegal leaflet in front of police and even to some of the police as well. The women forced their way into the building and the police had a really tough time trying to get them out. Word spread around that several of them had been arrested and this brought out new and very threatening demonstrations.

  Willie Gallacher

  Tough Times, Police, Trying

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• In 30 minutes, at high noon, more than 200 civilians are killed. Zionism carries out a massacre in the city of Lydda.

  Ari Shavit

  Noon, Massacres, Minutes

  "My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel". Book by Ari Shavit, November 19, 2013.

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• Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

  Reynolds Price

  Civilization, Permanent Things, Permanent

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• As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

  Reynolds Price

  Mother, Children, City Streets

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