2,405 Quotes About Cities

  • Author Sarah Winders
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    Between 1998 and 2003, more than 10,000 families were forced out by eminent domain. It's the most powerful tool cities have to rejuvenate neighborhoods, but they are taking it too far.

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  • Author Scott Westerfeld
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    I know what it’s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it’s like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. We’ve spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So don’t try to make me feel guilty! -Tally Youngblood, Extras

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  • Author Scott Westerfeld
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    Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.

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  • Author Shane Warne
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    There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasnt even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic.

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  • Author Shaun White
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    My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

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  • Author Susan Williams
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    Sports as economic development has been a good deal for Indianapolis. It's now become a critical economic measure for our city, which we have to retain. Lots of cities are looking at this and want what we have.

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  • Author Tad Williams
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    Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?

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  • Author Terry Tempest Williams
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    I live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel deeply connected, not only because of my Mormon roots, which are five or six generations, but because of where we live. There isn't a day that goes by that I'm not mindful of the spiritual sovereignty that was sought by my people in coming to Utah.

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