“ My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City? ”
- Henry Youngman- Copy
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“ When men were all asleep the snow came flying,In large white flakes falling on the city brown,Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying,Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town. ”
- Robert Bridges- Copy
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“ What we have now is a university town grafted onto a declining industrial city. The standard of living here is not going to be as great. ”
- James Connolly- Copy
- 571
“ New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, I'd like a card. He says, You have to prove you're a citizen of New York. So I stabbed him. ”
- Emo Philips- Copy
- 4K
“ When the Committee for Nuclear Information was organized in St. Louis in 1958, we brought scientists and civic-minded citizens together. ”
- Barry Commoner- Copy
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“ All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city. ”
- Pat Robertson- Copy
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“ There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland. ”
- Suzanne Fields- Copy
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“ While the citizens have a vested interest in the city following up on this, the citizens have other, greater interests. ”
- Robert Greene- Copy
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“ I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. ”
- Lewis H. Lapham- Copy
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“ He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 423
“ It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity. ”
- Benito Mussolini- Copy
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“ All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
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“ The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations.... The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert, From doing town or country hurt. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. ”
- Italo Calvino- Copy
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“ Then here's to the City of Boston, The town of the cries and the groans, Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks, And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns. ”
- Franklin P. Adams- Copy
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“ Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts. ”
- J. D. Hayworth- Copy
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“ I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 461
“ Fifty percent of the world's population now lives in cities, those are the people who need this,... We still get around cities the way the Greeks did 5,000 years ago; they put on sandals, we put on sneakers. ”
- Dean Kamen- Copy
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“ In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city, everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people. ”
- Jane Jacobs- Copy
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“ First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities. ”
- Bobby Hull- Copy
- 2.7K
“ And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
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