Towns Quotes - Page 22

• From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, School, Dedication

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.563, Best Books on

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• I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad.

  Philip Larkin

  Fear, Long, Mad

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Poesía reunida”, p.279, LUMEN

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• There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Sovereign

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.

  Herbie Mann

  Daughter, Mother, Moving

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• There's a late-night scene in every town, and everyone has something going on, ... I've heard good stories about (Syracuse); this is a very good party town, a good drinking place. I definitely would like to come back and check it out further. Do some more research, as I call it.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Party, Drinking

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• That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'

  Bill Maher

  Gun, Ak 47, Nuts

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• Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their minds on faith and redirect their hearts to charity. Muslims worldwide have stretched out a hand of mercy to those in need. Charity tables at which the poor can break their fast line the streets of cities and towns. And gifts of food and clothing and money are distributed to ensure that all share in God's abundance. Muslims often invite members of other families to their evening iftar meals, demonstrating a spirit of tolerance.

  George W. Bush

  Inspiration, Heart, Past

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• There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

  Thomas More

  Moon, Islands, Different

  Thomas More, Sir Saint (2008). “Utopia: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.152, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Docks

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• This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, People

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• My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my headquarters are being plastered with heavy guns and the town is being swept by shrapnel. I myself am O.K. but the front line is being buried.

  Gordon Bennett

  Military, Gun, Men

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• To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordinary city folk. For the US to be bombing Sunni towns all these years later on behalf of Mr. al-Maliki would be to invite terrorism against the US.

  Juan Cole

  Military, Iraq, Government

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• You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Frustration, Gun

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• Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

  K.P. Yohannan

  Cities, People, Missionary

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• We have taken a major step forward in providing a new high quality education facility at Longbridge. Not only will the new Bournville College shape Birmingham's learning environment, it will also form the first phase of the new Longbridge town centre and, therefore, represents a milestone in a new future for Longbridge.

  Mike Murray

  Taken, College, Quality

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• Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day,
  And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay,
  And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill,
  While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will,
  "Polly!-Polly!-
  The cows are in the corn!
  Oh, where's Polly?"

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Summer, Mother, Father

  Richard Watson Gilder (1885). “Lyrics”

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• Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

  Alan Jackson

  Softball, Jobs, Growing Up

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

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• It's a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you
  Because you are always so dear
  You are so dear no matter the year
  But all throughout each day of the year
  There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you
  could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.

  George Orwell

  Niece, Years, Feelings

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• For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere.

  George Gershwin

  Love, Inspiring, Shining

  "Song: "A Foggy Day in London Town"". 1937.

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• Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Running, Rain, Rivers

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• Tears fall in my heart
  As tears fall on the town.

  Paul Verlaine

  Rain, Fall, Heart

  "The Sky Above the Roof: Fifty-six Poems".

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• At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Sunset, Littles, Streets

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.25

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• Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.

  Archibald Geikie

  Summer, Country, Spring

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• They saw their injured country's woe;
  The flaming town, the wasted field;
  Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
  They took the spear, - but left the shield.

  Philip Freneau

  Uplifting, Country, Memorial Day

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

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• Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan, swingin' through your town like your neighbourhood spiderman!

  Inspectah Deck

  Rap, Troops, Pakistan

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