Quotes about cities
cities citizens disaster federal government next owes prepared time towns
Any one of your cities and towns could be the next New Orleans. The federal government owes it to you and your citizens to be prepared the next time disaster strikes. Harry Reid
cities run
In all of the cities where we have newspapers, we run the business.
cities deprived destroyed flood forces hostile impulses lives loss man noble temples
No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed Helen Keller
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New York is one of the few premier international cities without a direct mass transit link between its airports and the city center, ... This can be done, and it must be done.
cities felt major takes tragedy
It usually takes a major tragedy for these things to come about, but not too many cities do this. I just felt it was needed.
cities council government grants improve learning mayors members talk
They are learning experiences, ... You find out what other cities are doing to improve their government and you find out what grants are available. You get to talk with other council members and mayors to see what they're doing to make things better.
cities cost customer giving networking noble prepared provide run services taxpayers vote wireless
They want to provide low-cost wireless services for their citizens?a noble act, but one which is going to cost taxpayers without giving them the right to vote on that kind of deployment, ... The cities are not prepared to run this kind of business. They don't know what customer service in networking is.
cities distribute food people rural straight taking trucks
What we are doing now with our trucks and our food is bypassing the cities and taking them straight to nongovernmental organizations, who will distribute the food to people in the rural areas.
cities companies create critical diego feeding few ground mass san
Very big established companies create a feeding ground for startups. Very few cities in the world have a critical mass of RF designers. San Diego is one of them.
cities idaho rest-of-your-life
Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. Bernie Taupin
cities determine dialogue nature next plays
What the world has now are new cities with young populations and old cities with old populations. How the dialogue between them plays out will determine much of the nature of the next half-century. Stewart Brand
cities game kids matter needs special
This may be a pre-season game for us, but no matter the outcome, special needs kids all over the Quad Cities are the winners.
cities fulfilling guide lead ongoing relationships social travel
This kind of guide can lead to a lot of social impact. It can lead to more fulfilling travel and more ongoing relationships with the cities that you travel to.
cities evidence mass
This is a wanton and indiscriminate destruction of this country's cities and villages, ... There is a lot of evidence of mass killing. Thomas Wilson
cities silence noise
We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath. Dorothy Day
cities people community
I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.
cities close contact heard listening lots taking trying
I haven't heard from Louisville, ... Lots of cities have made contact through the league. I know we're taking a look and listening to a few. But we're trying to get something close to Louisiana. George Shinn
cities commodity exchange last operating reached
In the last two years, Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) has reached more than 500 cities and operating from more than 5,000 terminals in the country.
cities future government near paid surprised united
In the near future I wouldn't be surprised if there were some demonstrations in American cities paid for by the Venezuelan government or its contractors here in the United States.
cities leads map shows structure territory worse wrong
If the map shows a different structure from the territory represented -- for instance, shows the cities in a wrong order. . . . then the map is worse than useless, as it misinforms and leads astray. Alfred Korzybski
cities diego feels port san spreading strongly wants wealth
If San Diego wants to be a destination, they have to have more than one place to have meetings. Spreading the wealth to other cities is something the port feels strongly about.
cities whole
She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that. J. D. Salinger
cities shapes born
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. Italo Calvino
cities names entering
For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and there is another city which you leave never to return. Each deserves a different name; perhaps I have already spoken of Irene under other names; perhaps I have spoken only of Irene.
cities giving delight
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
cities lost quarters
The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.
cities people stories
I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.
cities events nuclear
There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event. Irwin Redlener
cities office community
The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management.
cities two car
I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely! Ioan Gruffudd
cities pigeons facts
Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose. Ingrid Newkirk
cities san-francisco size
San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry. Jack Kenny
cities long despair
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. Jack Kemp