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 waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Bridges Quotes , Cities Quotes

I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Cities Quotes , Events Quotes

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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I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

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I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

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Tags : Al Seckel Quotes , Weekend Quotes , Cities Quotes

And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.

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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Cities Quotes , Progress 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

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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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Dead Poets Society Quotes , Cities Quotes

I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Quotes , Cities Quotes

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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

I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Cities Quotes , America Quotes

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Country Quotes , Cities Quotes

I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

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Tags : Abbey Curran Quotes , New York Quotes , Cities Quotes

That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Cities Quotes , Foundation Quotes

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Cities Quotes , San Francisco Quotes

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Rome Quotes , Cities Quotes

My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

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