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“It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II].”

Thinking World Way Children War Next Found House Left Waiting Cities Europe Towns Tables Coffee Bread War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Port

Author:Golda Meir

“The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.”

Different School Past Fantasy Land Source Cold Europe Towns Nostalgia Hills Classic Italian Site Exile Academy Abbey

Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic

Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic

“Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their laws; and the consequences are that the whole country among them is overrun with the most abominable practices: adulteries and unlawful connections through all their villages, towns, cities, and country places to a most fearful extent.”

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Author:Orson Pratt

“Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.”

Looks Europe Towns Blue Something New Brides Borrowed Superstitious Portuguese

Book:A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

Source: A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

“Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.”

Knows Years Cities Imagine Ought Europe Towns Paradise Parks Fifty Lakes Detroit Matured Enchanting

Book:The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection

Source: The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection

“Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.”

People Cities Movement Europe Towns Down And Rose Spread Smell Landscape Urban Organize Slow Down Slow Food Urban Landscape

Author:Carl Honore

“I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together. Everybody was either somebody from the South or an immigrant from East Europe or from Mexico. And there was one church, and there were four elementary schools. And we were all, pretty much until the end of the war, very, very poor.”

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Author:Toni Morrison

“When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.”

Littles Eye Artist Turns Sea Missing New York Europe Towns Farms Discontent Little Towns

Author:Norman Rockwell

“This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.”

People Looks Inspiration Government America President Cities Europe Towns Small Town

Author:Mitt Romney

“If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.”

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Author:Bill Bryson

“But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.”

Country Law Certain Five Europe Towns Sells Fruit Lawyer Miles Bars Bread Instance Odd Borders Islands Bakers Where You Live Odd Things

Author:Daniel Handler

“Modeling in Europe at the beginning of my career was pretty hard, with the constant traveling and uncertainty as to where I was going to be from one day to the next. I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.”

Knows Hard Running Next Speak Language Careers Strange One Day Europe Towns Constant Uncertainty Modeling Jet Lag Jet Lag

Author:Molly Sims