Quotes about cities
cities new-orleans african-american
It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans. Ray Nagin
cities language speak
I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language. Rashida Jones
cities government support
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. Thomas Jefferson
cities taste architecture
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt. Robert Moses
cities contact ifs
New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!
cities cnn devil
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages. Wally Lamb
cities facts terrorism
And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism. Vito Fossella
cities want research
My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them. William Julius Wilson
cities white black
Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.
cities russia water
Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy. Winston Churchill
cities san-francisco want
Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember. Willie Brown
cities shining religion
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity. William J. Brennan
cities america rural-areas
Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas. William J. Clinton
cities community different
I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject, the interviewee - actually tend to hold steady much more consistently in rural Africa than they do in the American inner city. William Finnegan
cities way television
Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. William Gibson
cities usa community
It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective. Westbrook Pegler
cities america shining
Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship. Sarah Palin
cities usa america
I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. Sarah Bernhardt
cities body
Every city is a living body. Saint Augustine
cities discipline trying
It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets. Wilma Rudolph
cities cameras painting
Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings. Wim Wenders
cities people london
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it. Will Self
cities world shooting
It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline. Will Rogers
cities people african-american
I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. Wes Craven
cities san-francisco mad
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Rudyard Kipling
cities mind sometimes
I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them. Will Oldham
cities enemy made
Cities are made for enemies to destroy.
cities quality orchestra
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. Zubin Mehta
cities exciting toughness
I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness. Zaha Hadid
cities safety swim
Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety? Zach Braff
cities ideas numbers
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas. William Hazlitt
cities political politics
I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion. William E. Gladstone
cities government office
From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.