Best years-ago & cities Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.”

Years School Social Cities Careers Study Teaching High School Years Ago Retired Social Studies Inner City Younger Sister Teaching History

Author:Judy Woodruff

“I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.”

Years House Cities Years Ago Miles Granada

Author:Alexei Sayle

“Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are all vulnerable, even in the heartland. I was in college at Rice University in 1995. All of us remember exactly where we were that day, and we will never forget the 168 people who were killed. Terrorism is evil, yet the incredible response to tragedies like we experienced in Oklahoma 20 years ago serve to highlight the strength, resolve, and resiliency of the American people to the world.”

“The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.”

“[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years ago, and a proliferation of architectural excesses for which many people can and should be blamed.”

People Should Years Cities Years Ago Architecture Excess Eighty Handicaps Proliferation Immaturity

Author:Dervla Murphy

“It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.”

Ifs Years Mean Stills War States Order Games Wish Peace Cities Ought Years Ago Remembered Greek Civilized Bringing Peace Be Remembered By

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.”

Years Bigs Cities Careers Streets New York Brother Wall Years Ago New York City Professional Career

Author:Gerald Chertavian

“I feel like myself and the city of Cleveland are in the same boat. We're made for each other. A few years ago, everybody had bad thoughts on Albert Belle. I feel that has changed.”

Feels Years Made Cities Changed Years Ago Boat Cleveland Belle Bad Thoughts Made For Each Other

Book:Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle

Source: Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle

“The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all that time Jews remained steadfast to it.”

Years Made Three Powerful Cities Holy Thousand Years Ago Connections Ancient Jew Thousand Years Judaism Jerusalem Steadfast

Book:Nothing Abides: Perspectives on the Middle East and Islam

Source: Nothing Abides: Perspectives on the Middle East and Islam

“A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.”

Years Found Cities Share Fairs Years Ago Seven Population Various Kingdoms Representatives Parliament Fair Share

Book:The Public Letters of John Bright

Source: The Public Letters of John Bright

“When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.”

Years Facts Three Challenges Cities Steps Taken Team Pride Type Proud Deserve Years Ago Determination Accepted Intense Nba Three Years Championship Bulls Nba Championships

Author:Doug Collins

“This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a mud-flat, swamp. Today, this is a modern city. Ten years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!”

Years Made Country Today Cities Modern Ten Years Ago Flats Mud Swamps Never Fear Metropolis

Author:Mr. Lee

“To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.”

Years Action Social Cities Years Ago Species London Sixty Bishops Discussing Public Good Origin Of Species Social Action

Book:The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion

Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion

“We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?”

Want Years Kind Dies Causes Cities Streets Car Years Ago Horse Cancer Libertarian Nine Pollution Eighty Fever Ankles City Streets Old Car Typhoid

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.”

Trying Years Firsts Waiting Cities New York Years Ago Tables Actresses New York City Waitress Waiting Tables

Author:Kim Dickens

“I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh the first story. Gnomon is such an interesting word. So many different uses for a word nooone has heard of, or uses these days. I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.”

“Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many state colleges - were tuition free. Today college is unaffordable for many working class families. For the sake of our economy and millions of Americans, we must make higher education more affordable.”

“I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.”

Years I Can Book Ends Sleep Cities Technology Mystery Advice Missing Years Ago Twenties Fellows West Maps Bus Google Unpredictable Passengers West Africa Travel Books Google Maps

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“While I was writing the book, I went to see Louise Brooks's most famous film, Pandora's Box, at the Tivoli in Kansas City, and it was a lovely experience. You can watch old silent films on DVD or even on YouTube, but it was a different feeling watching her up on the big screen, seeing the film the way people saw it all those years ago.”

“The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that a child that talks back to his parents ought to be stoned at the gates of the city. Those ideas are absurd.”

People Years Children Long Ideas Parent Cities Written Ought Periods Worship Years Ago Filled Property Absurd Gates Long Ago Rejected Homosexual False Gods

Author:John Shelby Spong

“In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into Yiddish and sang on a stage in New York City. Thank God very few people knew I was doing it! But the kids in the audience loved it - even though it was all in Yiddish.”

People Years Kids Cities Audience Stage New York Projects Years Ago New York City Thank God Peter Yiddish Staging

Author:Maurice Sendak

“A little more than a hundred years ago, "Tel Aviv" was not a city. It was a title of a novel written by an author. The "Return to Zion" was a name of another novel. There was a bookshelf. There was no country. There was no state. There was no nation. There was no physical Jewish reality in this country.”

Years Littles Country States Reality Names Nations Cities Novel Written Return Hundred Years Ago Titles Bookshelves Zion

Author:Amos Oz

“Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.”

People Should Years Long Today Wanted Poor Cities Poverty Ten Mountain Aspect Years Ago India Assuming Forests Tribes Better Off

Author:Indira Gandhi

“I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. One was understanding and coping with anti-Semitism. Boston, at the time, was the most anti-Semitic city in the country. And I found out when I was an adolescent that you have to be crazy to go out after dark all by yourself; you'd get your head bashed in.”

Years Book Country Found Left Speak Understanding Dark Cities Boys Written Crazy New York Years Ago Boston Coping Being Crazy Anti Semitism Anti Semitic

Author:Nat Hentoff

“Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the city has been nothing like that. In fact a few years ago it was super-neoliberal, which led to the crash.”

Years Has Beens Country Facts Social Cities Years Ago Democratic Capitalist Crash Anarchist Mayors Iceland Nordic

Author:Noam Chomsky

“For example, it was this pack of wolves that sparked off the Rodney King affair a few years ago in Los Angeles. Let us consider the situation: a person videos Rodney King being beaten up by the cops. That person then sends in the footage to the TV station. Within hours riots flare up in the city!”

Years Persons Hours Cities Situation Example Tvs Kings Years Ago Affair Video Stations Los Angeles Cop Packs Beaten Riot Flare Flare Up Packs Of Wolves

Author:Paul Virilio

“Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.”

Years Long Cities Magic Months Mets Paper Years Ago Thirds Dull Papers Magician Wednesday

Book:Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

“Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.”

People Years America Cities Four Thousand Years Ago Rivers Ancestor Thousand Years Barbarians Illiterate Grids Sewers

Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.”

“I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.”

Years Firsts Two Challenges Cities Saws First Time Years Ago Rivers Hills Rising Cliffs Rise Above Mist Lavender

Author:Theodore White

“We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it's hard to reach the drive-through window at McDonald's from a speeding train. And we're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?”

“While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases for themselves, but having testimony from their fathers, wrote as they did. For ancient bishops, of the great Rome and our city [i.e., Alexandria, Egypt, where Athanasius was bishop], some 130 years ago, wrote and censured those who said that the Son was a creature and not consubstantial with the Father.”

Men Years Said Earth Father Cities Son Creatures Years Ago Ancient Phrases Spokes Sarcastic Rome Egypt Testimony Bishops Sprung Alexandria

Author:Athanasius of Alexandria

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