Quotes of Municipal - somelinesforyou

“ Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut. ”

- Fred Allen

“ He looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ That's what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine. ”

- Grace Jones

“ In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us. ”

- Joe Bob Briggs

“ And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. ”

- Bible

“ All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs. ”

- Bible

“ Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city. ”

- Arthur Keith

“ Any attempt to reform the university without attending to the system of which it is an integral part is like trying to do urban renewal in New York City from the twelfth story up. ”

- Ivan Illich

“ 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

“ Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Even cities have their graves! ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ 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

“ You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town. ”

- Anne Lamott

“ The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ It's a kind of vast municipal fire station a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved friend. ”

- Prince of Wales Charles

“ And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. ”

- Ezra

“ That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved. ”

- Tony Campolo

“ So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. ”

- Stokely Carmichael

“ Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom. ”

- John Bright
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