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“A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38.”

Cities New York Gun Possession These Days Pockets Priests New York City Arrested

Author:David Letterman

“Man is the same today that he has always been. He is a rebel against God. He may, in some generations, hide his rebellion a little more carefully than at other times, but there is no change in his heart. The men who builded the city against God back in the days of Babylon had the same hatred as that which possessed the men who nailed the Lord Jesus Christ to the cross.”

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Author:Donald Barnhouse

“I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.”

Way Mean Ideas Government Cities Musician Plumbing City Government

Author:Jerry Garcia

“The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.”

People World Earth Cities Sea Mountain Empty Forests Desert Nothingness Unchangeable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people, whose inferior and at times miserable economic situation provokes the flight to the unhappy crowded conditions of the city outskirts, where neither employment nor housing awaits them?”

“I went to the beach a couple of times in New York City. Tough summer out there, but I was pretty excited. I found what I thought at the time was a very rare seashell. And I took it to a friend of mine who works in a museum. And I was really disappointed. It turned out to be just a human ear.”

Inspirational Humans Found Cities New York Mines Couple Summer Tough Ears Excited Beach Museums Disappointed New York City

Author:David Letterman

“They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come over to his house and he would teach them with a great deal of humor and laughter about the nature of existence.”

House Deals Cities Existence Teach Walking Laughter Woods Introduction Humor And Laughter

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand why he must do this. For if his frustration and despair are allowed to continue piling up, millions of Negroes will seek solace and security in black-nationalist ideologies. And this, inevitably, would lead to a frightening racial nightmare.”

Ifs Black Effort Cities Millions Security Goes On Despair Ideology Frustration Nightmare March Halls Frightening Solace Pilgrimage Let Him Go City Hall

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.”

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Author:William Shatner

“It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.”

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Author:Quincy Jones

“My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.”

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Author:William Shatner

“I always sort of talk about - to myself at least, or to my friends, about wanting to just keep life very simple. I've found it most simple here in New York. You know, it's basically I have a, in a way, a 9-to-5 job, you know? I do eight shows a week. I live in New York City. I get to walk everywhere, and you know, just be one of the people of the city. And it's actually wonderful.”

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Author:Bradley Cooper

“What it boils down to is that when you say the word Las Vegas it means something. You could say New York City and it doesn't really mean anything. When you say a word like Bangkok, in my mind it means something. There's not a lot of cities where the world literally brings a picture to your mind.”

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Author:Todd Phillips

“Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in. Coming to the States and going into the store and people are like, "Hi, can I help you?" - I'm not used to people randomly talking to me that I don't know.”

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Author:Yukimi Nagano

“Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.”

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Author:Hamlin Garland

“It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.”

Source: Collected Poems

“Its unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people.”

People Cities Car Expensive Unfair Housing Parking

Author:Donald Shoup

“I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.”

Three Born Cities Week Travel Decided Paris Born To Live

Author:Ed Bradley

“Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.”

Art Dream Cities Pieces One Day Wander Saving Buying Gallery Saving Up

Author:Nicola Formichetti

“Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.”

Film Faces Cities Comedy Generations Changed Sitcom Snl Fey Second City

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!”

Kids Cities Growing Up Growing Joyous

Author:Theophilus London

“In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get away from religion, from their families, they wanted to come out, make art, have sex, have experiences. But this new crew was something we had never seen before. They were the first generation of suburban Americans. They came, not to be citified, but rather to change cities into places they could recognize and dominate.”

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Author:Sarah Schulman

“Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.”

“Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.”

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Book:A Canticle For Leibowitz

Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz

“New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.”

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Author:Jeff Goodell

“I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.”

Way Looks Kind Has Beens Whole Bigs Light Black Cities Streets Rain Window Shining Apples Sugar Candy Polished Syrup

Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.”

Firsts Lost Cities Novel Prison Radio Visiting Peru

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.”

Children Important Cities Stores Neighborhood

Book:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet - with the soul-deep conviction that animals are not ours to eat, wear, exploit or experiment on.”

Feels Soul Animal Cities New York Delight Conviction Experiments Diets New York City Vegan Exploits Feels Right Vegan Diet

Author:Victoria Moran

“All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine diaspora, have a deep connection and abiding love for this crazy-making, intoxicating city. There's nothing like it in the world, and they know it.”

Knows World Cities Growing Crazy Connections Fearless Elsewhere Fabulous Abiding Philippines Diaspora Manila Deep Connections Abiding Love

Author:Jessica Hagedorn

“I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.”

People America Culture Community Cities New York Reactions Passing Passings New York City Squares Passing Through Merging Hub Times Square

Author:Dhani Jones

“I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture.”

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Author:Marcus Brigstocke

“It is amazing to me how deeply into the popular culture the creature has become. There are zombie walks in every major city. I live in Toronto, and last year 3,000 people came out dressed as zombies.... I do not get it. Maybe it's an easy costume: Splash some ketchup on and rip up your jeans -- although most people already have torn jeans -- and you're done.”

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Author:George A. Romero

“I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?”

Book Night Cities Band Dinner Desert Hiking Eastern Woodland Wild Places Living In The City Books And Music

Author:Charles de Lint

“Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.”

Sides Cities Advantage Senses Subtle Seduction Hostile

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.”

Littles Lying Cities Gay Butterfly Moss Brussels Woodland Girdles

Book:Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes

Source: Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes

“First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.”

Long Seems Joy Cities Half Sky Fans Fields Blessing Bird Conscious Grateful Green Missions Gentle Settling Cheeks Breeze Azure Green Fields Sojourners

Author:William Wordsworth

“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.”

Way Might Culture Water Cities Russia Accuracy Containing Great Cities Cholera Typhoid

Book:The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill

Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill

“These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorise and cow the people of this mighty imperial city ... Little does he know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of the Londoners.”

Source: Sir Winston Churchill, K. G., P. C., O. M., C. H., M. P.: selections from his writings and speeches

“It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed.”

Should Moments Seems Cities Sake Terror Bombing Pretext

Author:Winston Churchill

“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.”

Important Cities Tree Land Industry Roots Branches Farmers Decline Agriculture

Author:Bernard Baruch

“I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.”

House Church Cities Flow Rivers London

Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

“Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.”

Way Kids Success Inspiring Money Business Cities Education Creativity Fantasy Fantastic Things To Do Shortage Inner City

Author:Bill Gates

“The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground.”

Should Long Has Beens Made Cities Air Building Posts Wire Automobile Hideous Billboards

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.”

Giving Mind Body Space Views Race Cities Air Birth Breathing Mind And Body Confined Degenerates Hurtful Stagnant Metropolis Breathing Space

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

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

Term Community Cities Quality Color Lows Educational Income Correlation Inner City Low Income High Notes City Walls

Author:Bill Gates

“I'm alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood.”

Trying Night Dark Cities Blood Freeze Stumbling

Author:Isaac Marion

“I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library—subway maps, bus maps, and regular maps—and try to memorize them. I’m afraid of getting lost; no, I’m afraid of sinking into the city as in a quicksand, afraid of getting sucked into something I can never escape.”

Trying Looks I Can Lost My Own Cities Library Maps Resolve Bus Venture Sinking Subway Getting Lost Quicksand

Author:Deborah Feldman

“When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can push (which either screws or nails something) they become Gods in their own heads.They can do anything: they can eat through walls and bring buildings together to form mighty empires.They can build floating cities and flying tin cans.But they still can't make their own beds.”

Men Humans Stills Together Moving Form Can Do Powerful Cities Objects Building Wall Bed Flying Noise Empires Buttons Nails Floating Screws Tin Moving Parts Tin Cans

Author:Craig Stone

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