Cities Quotes - Page 40

• We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

  Hannibal Buress

  Funny, Mean, Talking

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• But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

  Hesiod

  Land, People, Giving

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• Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams - he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at various times - and his stadium situation just isn't going to get resolved in the Twin Cities. Even some of his fellow owners have him No. 1 on the relocation list. I think Red might sell, ... He's been known to sell before.

  Bud Adams

  Team, Thinking, Nba

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• This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distances. The fair draws people from as far away as Albert Lea, Owatonna and the Twin Cities.

  Eddie Murphy

  Distance, People, Twins

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• Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities

  Robert Stephens

  People, Next, Twins

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• All of you are aware of the journey I've taken this past year and I just want to relay to all of the people that sent along their prayers and well wishes, my heartfelt thanks. It was truly overwhelming to me and my family the outpouring that we received from the Twin Cities community and from across the Midwest.

  Fred Hoiberg

  Prayer, Taken, Past

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• The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on the walls. It's supposed to resemble New York City, ... Look, we even have the Twin Towers on there.

  Mike Wells

  New York, Wall, Black

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• After September, I've reflected on the campaign, and being a new father of twin boys, I really feel like I owe it to the kids in the city to give this a shot and make this district a better place.

  Jeffrey O. Henley

  Father, Kids, Boys

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• By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Doors, Way, Twins

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• Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this. It will take time. But we will get through this.

  Joey McIntyre

  Inspiring, Boston, Resolve

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• My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.

  Matt Damon

  Inspiring, Prayer, Lost Love

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• It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Simple, League

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• Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.

  John Hickenlooper

  Moving, Trying, Scandal

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• I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again.

  Joan Didion

  New York, Mean, Way

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Dec 22, 2014

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• He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Black And White, Tunes

  "Fictional character: Isaac Davis". Comedy, Drama, Romance, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Baby, Wall, Rain

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.16

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• It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.

  John Green

  Eye, Thinking, Guy

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.154, Penguin UK

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• I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

  Alan Autry

  Men, Safety, He Man

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

  Armistead Maupin

  Friendship, New York, Teenager

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• I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

  George Mason

  Tired, Nonsense, Etiquette

  Letter to his son, George Mason, May 27, 1787.

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• You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

  Ed Harris

  Sleep, Three, Hours

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• If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Book, Taken

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• The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.

  George Herbert

  Country, Chickens

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.295

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• In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew.

  Polybius

  Children, War, Men

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• The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.

  Barry Eisler

  People, Machines, Ears

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