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“When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.”

Ifs Firsts Said Real Cities New York Teenager New York City Real Love

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.”

People Men Firsts Real Shows Cities Worry Television Standards Seasons New Orleans Television Shows High Standards Old Movie

Author:Wendell Pierce

“The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.”

Firsts Play Father Cities Effects New York Late Hip Hop Radio Enormous Hips Hops Stations New York City Exposed Disco Radio Stations Happenstance

Author:Michael Rapaport

“I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped around a couple of regional theaters, and I was about to go back to Maine to work at a summer Shakespeare theater there. I didn't want to just jump around the country from gig to gig. I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community.”

Want Firsts Children Country Wanted Jobs Community Cities Groups College Couple Involved Scene Summer Theater Get Involved Gigs Kentucky Maine

Author:Timothy Simons

“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.”

Way Firsts Children Form Turns Grows Parent White Cities Growing Up Imagine Generations Streets Gay Breathe Flight Highways Obsolete Suburbs Lawns Skylines

Author:Herbert Muschamp

“The first joint priority of the churches of any city should be that of making it hard for people to go to hell from that city.”

People Should Firsts Hard Church Cities Hell Priorities Joints Go To Hell

Author:David Shibley

“In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.”

Firsts Lasts Cities Half Decades Journalist Permission Bin Laden Compounds Osama Bin Laden Secured February

Author:Peter Bergen

“First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.”

Firsts Stills Wanted House Fun Grows Born Animal Cities Growing Up Knowing Growing Stage Kings Reruns Second City

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being”

Years Firsts Humans Wisdom Earth Felt Human Beings Cities Holy First Time Creator Islamic

Author:Malcolm X

“At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.”

Men World Firsts Reality Fall Cities Steps Wise Judging Hero Circumstances Shame Foolish Forests Gates Customs First Steps Sanctity Dwarfs Discredit

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.”

Men Firsts Born Cities

Author:Euripides

“There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.”

Men Firsts Law Common Cities Equal Tyranny One Man Tyrants Hostile

Book:The Tragedies of Euripides: Hercules furens. The Troades. Ion. Andromache. Suppliants. Helen. Electra. Cyclops. Rhesus

Source: The Tragedies of Euripides: Hercules furens. The Troades. Ion. Andromache. Suppliants. Helen. Electra. Cyclops. Rhesus

“I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.”

Firsts Guy Stuff Sin Cities New York Drawing Noir Vermont Tights Sin City

Author:Frank Miller

“After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.”

Firsts Wells School Cities Achievement Primaries Grades Academic Forte Primary School Stellar Academic Achievement Penmanship

Author:Vernon L. Smith

“We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets or distant space cities, they will look back at our achievement with wonder at our courage and audacity and with appreciation at our accomplishments, which assured the future in which they live.”

Firsts Looks Space Cities Wonder Generations Planets Walking Lucky Moon Achievement Appreciation Broke Accomplishment Assured Descendants Star Gazing Audacity

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is "Yokel", but San Francisco is "City at Heart".”

Firsts Heart Made Born Cities New York First Time Size Gentleman Dozen San Francisco Settlers

Author:Will Rogers

“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

“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.”

Firsts Kind Art Dream Wanted Past Desire Left Sex Cities Generations Towns Get Away Crew

Author:Sarah Schulman

“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

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Has Beens Self Facts Reality Might Truth Faces Dies Wish Deals Cities Refuse Deception Might Have Been Slogans Self Deception

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!”

Should Firsts Looks Has Beens Today Born Cities New York Should Have Train New York City Should Have Been Grandeur Terminal

Book:A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist

Source: A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist

“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?”

“We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.”

Should Firsts Country Found Cities Enemy Failing Land Masters Prepared Stranger Enterprise Disguise Be Prepared Hostile

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Nations die first in the big cities.”

Firsts Bigs Dies Nations Cities Big Cities

Author:Austin O'Malley

“The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God "and to an innumerable company.”

Men Firsts Real Next Jesus Cities Company First Time Brotherhood City Of God

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, in towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilizations, in all its branches, to go on.”

“Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.”

Mind Firsts Language My Own Cities Spokes Mexico Minnesota Mexico City

Author:Bob Dylan

“There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City - the intuition that I had been there already.”

Firsts Feelings Faces Night Cities Saws Heard New York Sight Meetings Intuition Recognition Artistic New York City Great Art Day And Night Old Friends Great Artist Stonehenge

Author:Ralph Vaughan Williams

“As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets - I AM AN ANTICHRIST - Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today - listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang - my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.”

“The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.”

Way Firsts Long Stills Two Home Together Law Cities Students University Humble Apartment Long Way Basements Quebec Two Of Us Newlyweds Humble Beginnings Law Students First Home

Author:Jean Chretien

“I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which reminds me of the Mediterranean light and colour which so excites one's sense of form; and first and last there is the human figure which in the country becomes a free and moving part of a greater whole. This relationship between figure and landscape is vitally important to me. I cannot feel it in a city.”

“At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.”

People Firsts Littles Winning Water Cities Solve Math California Pencils Shortage Bureaucrats Lawsuit Sharp Pencils

Book:Pump Six and Other Stories

Source: Pump Six and Other Stories

“Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined to civil life; and secondly the mercenary class, who were severe and numerous and intractable...; and, third, the tribe of the Alexandrians, who also were not distinctly inclined to civil life, and for the same reasons, but still they were better than those others, for even though they were a mixed people, still they were Greeks by origin and mindful of the customs common to the Greeks.”

People Firsts Stills Reason Three Common Cities Class Thirds Greek Native Customs Severe Tribes Egypt Mercenary Alexandria

Author:Strabo

“The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the north as far as the Thermaean Gulf and Thessaloniceia, a Macedonian city...; and secondly, the side that faces towards the south, I mean the Macedonian country, extending from Thessaloniceia as far as the Strymon.”

Firsts Mean Two Country Faces Sides Cities Sea South East Greece Two Sides Extending

Author:Strabo

“In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now melds fun, work, and wealth, showing a path toward the brightest vistas of the post-industrial world. It is the first city of the twenty-first century.”

People World Firsts Believe Whole Seems Fun Wealth Cities Path Century Twenties Prosperity Posts Vegas Las Vegas Tourism Gaming Vistas Fun Work

Book:The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas

Source: The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas

“I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their is someone there who is waiting. Where they'll show up or not, I don't know. That depneds upon many factors.”

Knows Giving Feels Firsts I Can Shows School Waiting Cities Buddhism Factors Lectures Rama Because I Can

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.”

World Years Firsts Sports Cities Series Excited Borders Canada Yankees Provinces Toronto Great Cities World Series

Author:Dave Winfield

“I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call ourselves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.”

Source: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque, Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished But Himself with an Account how He was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates, Written by Himself

“I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Long Two Reading Cities Known Novel Lovers Tales Well Known Long Life Dickens Tale Of Two Cities

Author:George Brandis

“Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.”

Firsts Two Deals Cities Beats Seasons Eight Chiefs Champion Bowls Jet Super Bowl Miami Kansas Baltimore Playoffs Kansas City Raiders Steelers Colts

Author:Joe Greene

“Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!”

Feels Firsts Death Mother Born Cities First Time Breaths Blessed Broke Strokes Chamber Crowded Seals Pestilence Bridal Crowded Cities

Book:Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

Source: Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

“My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.”

Firsts Jobs Stuff Cities Plant Slave Treated Chicago Steel Mills Kansas Cab Kansas City

Author:Ed Asner

“A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.”

Years Firsts Cities Fire Flower Hair Birth Spring Garden Gold Rose Leaving Chains This Life New Year Valentine Daisies New Years Eve Acres Tin Blooming Orchids Fire Escapes Tin Cans Crocuses

Author:Jean Hersey

“You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.”

People Firsts Children Humor Kids Political Speak Language Parent Cities Easier Tests Folks Quitting Racist Political Humor Speak English Inner City

Author:George W. Bush

“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.”

Firsts Humans Two Bigs Cities Travel Elements Architecture Rhythm Extras Capture Traveler Anguish Geometry Furious Big Cities

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Firsts Book Ideas Grows Cities Growing Up Growing Suicide Going Away Detroit Perishing

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.”

People Ifs Should Firsts War Walks Cities Feet Streets Cold Shoes Staring Cold War Moscow

Book:INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY

Source: INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY

“This is a proud moment for our city. This is the first time we have won a Finals game in this city, and I'm happy to be part of the history.”

Firsts Moments Games Cities Proud First Time Finals Championship Nba Championships Proud Moments

Author:LeBron James

“I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!”

Years Firsts Kind Long I Can Two Kids Used Stuff Cities Crazy College All Kinds Beach Piano Prize Two Years Contests Annuals Crazy Things Long Beach

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was Detroit Rock City. I heard it in the school library, where I lived.”

Firsts School Cities Heard Rocks Kissing Library Detroit School Library

Author:Brian Posehn