2,405 Quotes About Cities

  • Author John Jeremiah Sullivan
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    The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

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  • Author John Sandford
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    I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

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  • Author John Shelby Spong
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    My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian faith, but for whom the traditional symbols, as traditionally understood, no longer make sense. The other audience is the audience that has left. I call them the Church Alumni Association, citizens of the secular city. They are a bit nostalgic about this faith of their childhood, but they aren't really interested in trotting it out or becoming involved with it again as it is presently organized.

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  • Author John Silvia
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    They see these older cities that others may have passed over or thought for dead as environments where they can really create their own living space.

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  • Author John Starks
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    I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah.

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  • Author John Steinbeck
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    Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.

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  • Author John Steinbeck
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    Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

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  • Author Jordin Sparks
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    I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

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