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[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.
Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.
But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for. (on Manchester City players)
It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being able to enjoy the cities I'm in.
If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.
Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.
People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.
I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.
Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?
San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety?
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.
Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.
I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life.
Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities.
Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.
I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.
Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run a business.
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.
Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like sfCiti; New York has TECH NYC.
I will fix it. I will make it good. I'll bring back our jobs. We'll have good education. We'll have great safety in the inner city.
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.
I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.
Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.
My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city, he had no choice.
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]
The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .
Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.
Nature is good for all of us. When we're exposed to trees and other natural settings - even within the city, it fosters creativity.
This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.
I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.
I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.