Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Cities Quotes, Crumbling Quotes

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

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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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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

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

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Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

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The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

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I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

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The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

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Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.

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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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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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TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

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I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

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Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

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

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

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