City Quotes - page 5

It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow. (Jean Chrétien)
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. View quote
Jean Chrétien
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me. View quote
Anatoly Karpov
He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done. View quote
Ayn Rand
A rhyme's ... a barrel of dynamite. A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smoulders, the rhyme explodes – and by a stanza a city is blown to bits. View quote
Vladimir Mayakovsky
That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers. View quote
Solon
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. View quote
Flavius Josephus
Oklahoma City bombing was done on purpose. Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system? View quote
Kent Hovind
[Edmonton is a] fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes. View quote
Ralph Klein
I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people. View quote
Augustus
I didn't have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that came to New York City would show up at my apartment door at dinnertime, and I couldn't turn them away. I wasn't much older than any of them, but they started calling me ‘Mama Africa' and the name stuck. (Miriam Makeba)
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment. View quote
George Ade
Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I'll never forget my little city! I could talk a whole day about it! - talking about her hometown Erexim. View quote
Alessandra Ambrosio
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats. View quote
James Frazer
We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop's tongs – we can only Walk in temperate London, our educated city, Wishing to cry as freely as they did who died In the Age of Faith. We have our loneliness And our regret with which to build an eschatology. View quote
Peter Porter (poet)
Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it. View quote
Marguerite Duras
Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony...In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. View quote
Italo Calvino
A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it's incomplete. View quote
Ai Weiwei
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. (Al-Farabi)
You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name. View quote
Jack Kerouac
There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City. View quote
Zbigniew Herbert
Unfortunately, in places like Ferguson and New York City, and in some communities across this nation, there is a disconnect between police agencies and many citizens-predominantly in communities of color. View quote
James Comey