2,405 Quotes About Cities

  • Author Jane Jacobs
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    Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

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  • Author Jennifer Johnson
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    We want Dislocate to be a presence in the community. The Twin Cities has an incredible writing community, and we want Dislocate to be a part of that.

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  • Author Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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    The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

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  • Author Jonathan Jakubowicz
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    This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives poor in my city. I wanted to make a social experiment putting in the same car several people from different social classes, just to see what would happen.

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  • Author Kate Joncas
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    We don't have as much green space in our downtown as other cities do, so that means we have to make excellent use of what we've got.

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  • Author Ken Jennings
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    I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

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  • Author Mark Johnson
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    There are parts of that policy that haven't been reviewed for many, many years. It's time we take a look at what other cities are doing, see what information we can find and see what parts of our policy are outdated.

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  • Author Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand why he must do this. For if his frustration and despair are allowed to continue piling up, millions of Negroes will seek solace and security in black-nationalist ideologies. And this, inevitably, would lead to a frightening racial nightmare.

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