Quotes about cities
cities people chasing
If you are a Jedi, just understand something: people are going to be chasing you. The Jedi Council of every city you enter is going to be chasing you. I've been accosted by the Jedi Council in Rio and everywhere else. Samuel L. Jackson
cities want speed
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice. Salman Rushdie
cities world culture
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
cities boston age
It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.
cities growth doe
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
cities worst
As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
cities riches poverty
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
cities house world
Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop. Joseph Chamberlain
cities moscow littles
If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you're going to step. Kenneth Branagh
cities terror-attacks mumbai
Terror attacks in Mumbai have grown due to increase in the population of the north Indians in the city. Raj Thackeray
cities rivers way
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. Ralph Waldo Emerson
cities clothes errors
Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers
cities drawing civilization
The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.
cities want found
Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
cities giving water
But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
cities saint tire
If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.
cities may taste
The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
cities land care
Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.
cities big-cities bigs
Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature. Lennart Meri
cities theatre news
When I'm through with the Lee Greenwood Theatre, I won't do anything else in entertainment. Maybe I'll become an ambassador for the United States maybe I'll get into television, some news anchoring or something in a major city. Certainly the visibility would interest me a little bit. But someplace that would allow me to sit still certainly. Lee Greenwood
cities nuclear china
China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding. Lee H. Hamilton
cities world adequate
Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence. L. Ron Hubbard
cities people
The city's full of people who you just see around. Terry Pratchett
cities worst-enemy dying
Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.
cities sunrise captains
The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.
cities arrows bystanders
These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.
cities glasses pieces
The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass. Tennessee Williams
cities palimpsest site
The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten. Teju Cole
cities labs faces
The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to. Randall Munroe
cities trifles magnifying
Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
cities people growth
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
cities riding stories
I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things. Scarlett Johansson
cities minorities civil-rights
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry. Shirley Chisholm