Alan Autry Quotes, Cities Quotes, Perception Quotes

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

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I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cities Quotes , Rivers Quotes

Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Cities Quotes

Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world.

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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Cities Quotes

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Land Quotes , Cities Quotes

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , New York Quotes , Cities Quotes

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

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Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.

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Tags : Adam Zagajewski Quotes , Stars Quotes , Cities Quotes

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Party Quotes , Cities Quotes

Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.

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Tags : Al Sharpton Quotes , Believe Quotes , Cities Quotes

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

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Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

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This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

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In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Cities Quotes

And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Cities Quotes , Wind Quotes

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

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