2,405 Quotes About Cities

  • Author Henry Markram
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    We cannot experimentally map out the brain. Its just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.

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  • Author Henry Mayhew
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    The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis

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  • Author Henry Miller
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    Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

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  • Author Hermann Maier
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    It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

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  • Author Hermann Maier
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    I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

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  • Author Holly Madison
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    I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.

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  • Author Horace Mann
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    Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

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  • Author Irene McCormack
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    If San Diego wants to be a destination, they have to have more than one place to have meetings. Spreading the wealth to other cities is something the port feels strongly about.

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  • Author Isaac Marion
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    I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

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