Cities Quotes - Page 38

• It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

  Diane Frolov

  Sleep, Church, Sides

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• I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool several times, yet refuses to be destroyed. The shape only improved with weathering. I bought several for my storefront in NYC, but it felt like a fish out of water in the city. It cries out for the California coastline and the arid deserts of Africa.

  Andy Spade

  Ocean, Years, California

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• Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.

  Jonah

  Wickedness, Come Up, Great Cities

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• For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel
  like home.

  Simon Van Booy

  Home, Lost, Feels

  Simon van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.16, Oneworld Publications

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• Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Race, Flames, Three

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.33, Penguin

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• New York is a glamorous city, constituted mostly of nobodies. They crave the lights, and if they tell you differently, they're lying. Only dreamers come to New York. As a matter of course, few people have control of their lives. You live at the whim of your boss, your landlord, your grocer, the stranger, the judge, the bus driver, the mayor who won't let you smoke. On the other hand, you live at the whim of your whims, and that is the most exciting thing there is.

  Charlie LeDuff

  New York, Lying, Light

  Charlie LeDuff (2004). “Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts”, p.24, Penguin

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• If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Country, America, Towns

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• The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

  Jaime Lerner

  Believe, Taken, Ideas

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• There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. When a city accepts as a mandate its quality of life, when it respects the people who live in it, when it respects the environment, when it prepares for future generations, the people share the responsibility for that mandate. This shared cause is the only way to achieve that collective dream.

  Jaime Lerner

  Dream, Responsibility, People

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• The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

  Jaime Lerner

  Problem, Solutions

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• Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.

  Jaime Lerner

  Years, Three, World

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• The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

  Jaime Lerner

  Secret, Culture, Leisure

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• Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

  Wesley Morris

  Art, New York, Preoccupation

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• You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives.

  John de Ruiter

  Needs, Awakening, Thrive

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• I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps

  Frank Sinatra

  Sleep, Wake Up, Want

  Song: New York, New York

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• The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real horror show. Every 3 feet someone is accosting you with a plea for a handout or the offer of drug or sex. The men and women wander the streets and alleys with a threatening, violont want. Takers looking to take, hustlers looking to hustle, all trying to satisfy a craving that is parpatually unsatisfiable. And tonight I'm one of them.

  Nic Sheff

  Sex, Real, Dark

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.

  Noel Gallagher

  Gun, And Love, Sun

  Song: If I Had A Gun

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• Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.

  Eve Ensler

  Giving, Joy, Waiting

  Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.212, Macmillan

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• San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

  Cecil Beaton

  San Francisco, Bay Area, European Countries

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• Today, Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed when he learned that a firehouse isn't a house where you get to fire people.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Fire, People

  "This Week" with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. May 6, 2012.

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• The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost everywhere in the world is much closer to Tent City than it is to anything in Portugal. Our laws are built around the belief that drug addicts need to be punished to stop them. But if pain and trauma and isolation cause addiction, then inflicting more pain and trauma and isolation is not going to solve that addiction. It's actually going to deepen it.

  Johann Hari

  Pain, War, Thinking

  "Johann Hari: 'I failed badly. When you harm people, you should shut up, go away and reflect on what happened'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2015.

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• You don't need Tom Wolfe to tell you that the Buckhead section of Atlanta is the jewel of the city, an area of gracious homes, elegant hotels and shopping centers, as well as some of the best restaurants.

  Florence Fabricant

  Home, Atlanta, Jewels

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• Yet some of the most faithful, effective Christians I know are those who are living out their quiet calling to the few in their home, to their fledging church, or to the homeless under a bridge in their city. Nothing is meager or insignificant about that.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Christian, Home, Bridges

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• The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

  Lori Lansens

  Country, People, Shining

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.46, Vintage Canada

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• I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long... Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Marine, Long

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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