Cities Quotes - Page 37

• Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

  Patrick Modiano

  Nice, Ghost

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• Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Humanity, Today, Chaos

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• All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

  John Guare

  Beautiful, Running, New York

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• And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

  John Guare

  New York, Numbers, Ballet

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• However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

  John Guare

  New York, Believe, Ballet

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• I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

  John Guare

  Mean Girls, New York, World

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• Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

  John Guare

  New York, People, Ballet

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• I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

  John Guare

  New York, Thinking, Yankees

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• I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

  John Guare

  New York, Thinking, Years

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• Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about seven other American cities. At each supportive rally, thousands huddled around loudspeakers waiting for the Garden event, which would be broadcast live via radio to 200 additional cities across the country. At least 1 million Jews were participating nationwide. Perhaps another million Americans of non-Jewish descent heritage stood with them.

  Edwin Black

  Country, Garden, San Francisco

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• Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.

  Michelle Alexander

  School, Years, Age

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.150, The New Press

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• Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

  Lin Biao

  Latin, Europe, Gdp

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• When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit moody at them for stepping into my night-time. What I want is that feeling when you're in the rain, or a storm. It's a shiver at the edge of your mind, an atmosphere of hearing a sad, distant sound, but it seems closer - like it's just for you. Like hearing rain or a whale-song, a cry in the dark, the far cry.

  Burial

  Song, Rain, Dark

  "Only five people know I make tunes". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention.  You are living without it: you are on vacation.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Loneliness, Home, Dark

  "Party of one" by Andrew O'Hagan, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. May 09, 2013.

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• I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot

  Saul Perlmutter

  Growing Up, Kids, Perfect

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• New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a homesickness that baffles us until we go away from her, and then we realize why we are restless. At home or away, we are homesick for New York not because New York used to be better and not because she used to be worse but because the city holds us and we don't know why.

  Maeve Brennan

  New York, Home, Heart

  Maeve Brennan (2015). “The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker”, p.79, Counterpoint

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• I've spent my life capturing beautiful images. And whether in wilderness or in the downtown of a giant city, I find connections, universal rhythms, patterns and beauty that I recognize as a part of me, a part of all of us that celebrates life. It's my great pleasure to share with you that energy which inspires me; this great visual beauty of our world.

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Beautiful, Our World, Inspire

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

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• In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned than a bourgeois, indecisive or cowardly man. They only need a push in the right direction. Only one who is born a hero or a warrior has a place in our order. Only the Lord of the Pure Will can march to the end, breaking in the gates of the City of Eternal Life. Because will, through its perseverance, creates the thing it contemplates. Only the Wild Hordes of Odin and Parsifal will achieve the Graal.

  Miguel Serrano

  Perseverance, War, Hero

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• Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.

  Chaz Brenchley

  Regret, Real, Rain

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• Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?'
  Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It’s a groundling thing.

  Martha Wells

  Flower, Moon, Dubious

  Martha Wells (2012). “The Serpent Sea”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?

  Miguel Syjuco

  Memories, Shopping, Doe

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• Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now.

  John C. Wright

  Strong, Night, Men

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• A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor in the national system.
  The reinvigoration of the national spirit must take place in the grass roots, in every city, town and barrio in the Philippines, and it must start among our own people... To be a worthy citizen of the world one must first prove himself to be a good Filipino.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Roots, People, Depth

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• Ive been in New York City now for 22 years.

  Julie Gold

  New York, Years, New York City

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• What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV.

  Donald Sterling

  Girl, Sex, Guy

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