2,405 Quotes About Cities

  • Author W. L. George
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    It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.

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  • Author William E. Gladstone
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    I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

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  • Author William E. Gladstone
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    From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.

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  • Author William Gibson
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    A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

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  • Author Woody Guthrie
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    I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.

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  • Author Ada Huxtable
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    Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these "gateways" to the cities were palaces of splendor and objects of civic pride. Now they are caverns of gloom.

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  • Author Alan Hall
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    Grow Utah Ventures' goal is to be the most powerful private entity for economic development. We've got the governor and counties and cities doing what they do, but there's no reason why private people can't try and marshal their resources to get some things done.

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  • Author Alaina Huffman
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    If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.

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  • Author Alan Hansen
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    Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

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