City Walls Quotes

• I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. That's how I saw it, and see it still.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Ocean, Blessed

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, Native American, Cities

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• I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Dream, New York, Cities

  "Q&A – Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

  Victor Cruz

  New York, Athlete, Light

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• If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.

  Dante Hall

  Hands, Cities, Kansas City

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• No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

  Horatio Alger

  Wall, College, Years

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• Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

  Gerard Way

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

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• Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

  Thomas Menino

  Strong, Fate, Destiny

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• Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

  Laura Miller

  Cities, Dallas, Done

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• It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Cousin

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• In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

  Bill Gates

  Educational, Color, Cities

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• Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

  John Gardner

  Dream, Wall, Spinning Around

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.8, Vintage

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• As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Mean, Cities

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

  Richard Burton

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Fake People

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• The queen's eyes smouldered. "I know my own kind when I see them, and right now there is one in these city walls." She pointed a finger toward the balcony."I want her found and brought to me." "Right," said Kai,"that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that.

  Marissa Meyer

  Queens, Wall, Eye

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• At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.

  Tommy Douglas

  Friday, Wall, War

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939.

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• A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Wall, Winter

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.14, Booklassic

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• Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

  Rachel Hartman

  Wall, Lying, Cities

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• The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

  Heraclitus

  Wall, Fighting, Law

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• A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

  Zhuangzi

  Wall, Cities, Rams

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• Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on.

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Wall, Fall

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.174, Random House

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• The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was important, it was what he couldn't see when he sat at the window with his face turned toward Eddis.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Summer, Kings, Wall

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• She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Wall, Cities, Use

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1718, Macmillan

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• The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.

  Heraclitus

  Wall, Fighting, Law

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• Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy sickly brow, when free To tread the springy turf,— to hear the trees Communing with the gales,—to catch the voice Of waters, gushing from their rocky womb, And singing as they wander... Spring-hours will come again, and feelings rise With dewy freshness o’er thy wither’d heart.

  Robert Montgomery

  Nature, Wall, Spring

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “A Universal Prayer, Death, A Vision of Heaven and A Vision of Hell”, p.130

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