Best firsts & cities Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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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”

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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.”

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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?”

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