2,405 Quotes About Cities

  • Author George Santayana
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    The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

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  • Author George Shinn
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    I haven't heard from Louisville, ... Lots of cities have made contact through the league. I know we're taking a look and listening to a few. But we're trying to get something close to Louisiana.

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  • Author George Steiner
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    More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.

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  • Author George Steiner
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    To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.

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  • Author George Stewart
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    If Steve had suggested it earlier, we might have done it. But I looked at it as a slam dunk because smaller cities were paying more.

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  • Author Goldwin Smith
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    It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

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  • Author Graham Swift
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    London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.

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  • Author Granth Sahib
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    True are the cities and the villages, where one abides in the True Home of the self.

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  • Author Harrison Salisbury
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    Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

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