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When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind. — Protagoras

Dhaka the city of mosques has become the city of Hindu temples. — Delwar Hossain Sayeedi

They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone. — Teri Hatcher

Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons. — Cynthia Heimel

'Broad City' [series] has a wild side, but it also has a very heartfelt side. It's very human. — Ilana Glazer

The cool, grey city of love. — George Sterling

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability. — Janine Benyus

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches. — Robert Orben

Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other ... — Jean-Christophe Valtat

An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city. — Jan Gehl

New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left. — John Updike

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. — Geoffrey Fisher

All cities are geological and three steps cannot be taken without encountering ghosts. — Ivan Chtcheglov

People say Seattle is one of the toughest cities in which to make friends. They even have a name for it, the 'Seattle freeze'. — Maria Semple

There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City. — Lev Yashin

Cities are built out of poet's dreams. — Marty Rubin

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world. — Susan Ertz

A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting. — E. Michael Burke

No cities can grow in a dictatorship, because everything stays small when it's being watched. — Herta Muller

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. — Oscar Wilde

Cities are about juxtaposition. — Richard Rogers

Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city. — Julian Bond

Have they built cities on the moon?" another boy asked hopefully.
"We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties, but thats about it. — Ransom Riggs

Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a place that I feel like it's undervalued. It's one of the most amazing cities I've been to. It has the most to offer. — Danny Gokey

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. — Rupert Brooke

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens. — Cesar Pelli

If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible. — Maria Schell

My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness — Narendra Modi

For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the countryside. — Jeremy Irvine

She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats. — George R R Martin

... though he [Michael Faraday] took no cities, he captivated all hearts. — John Tyndall

Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier. — Anne Robinson

I will be khan of them all. We are one people and one man can lead them. How else can we take the cities of the Chin? — Conn Iggulden

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb. — John F. Kennedy

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop. — Joseph Chamberlain

Not by human dwellings
not in crowded cities alone, are the sights and sounds of life. The wildest places of the earth are full of them. — Solomon Northup

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson — H.W. Brands

I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads. — Drake

I live in Sydney now. I came here for the show and never went home - I do like it, it's a big change ... it's a big city, it's very fast. — Kate DeAraugo

Civilization - a word that simply means "living in cities ... "
Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses. — Tom Standage

There are certain cities around the world where it's possible to learn about tomorrow's technology as it's being developed today. — Jan Chipchase

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. — Stephen Gardiner

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City. — Lea Thompson

That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight. — Walter Savage Landor

A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. — Al-Farabi

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life — Aristotle.

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave. — Mason Cooley

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse. — Clay Shirky

What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death. — Kabir

In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release. — William Rounseville Alger

People recover differently. Some change cities, some fall in love and some begin writing. — Kanza Javed

When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated. — Zach Condon

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are. — Bill De Blasio

If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you. — Noel Gallagher

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963. — Pierre Salinger

For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town. — Annie Dillard

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly. — Henry David Thoreau

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner. — Grace Paley

Mesopotamia
will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled — Hammurabi

It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. — Henry David Thoreau

The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it. — Janet Echelman

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union. — Mark Twain

You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there. — Marina Tavares Dias

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

Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that. — Sam Palladio

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls — Aristophanes

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world ... are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver. — Alan Brien

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement. — Tom Piazza

We could build entire cities out of the stories of loneliness. — Hannah Brencher

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice, — Illmaculate

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic. — Dov Davidoff

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color. — Lady Bird Johnson

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. — George Santayana

A school isn't a school until Sophie tries to destroy it. — Shannon Messenger

Big cities can have big hearts. — Mary Elise Monsell

Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees ... — Hilda Doolittle

New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all! — Robert Orben

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. — Henry Louis Gates

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it? — Margaret Mead

I may have left Liverpool but the city and club will always be part of me. — Kenny Dalglish

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city. — Sam Waterston

The critics don't build great cities — Federico Pena

In many cities, it's become popular to hate 'gentrifiers,' rich people who move in and drive up housing prices - pushing everyone else out. — Annalee Newitz

Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body's totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City. — Tina Fey

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti

Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

The Full Monty, ah, it's superb. The Full Monty showed how life really is in certain cities of England. — Mark Roberts

I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes. — Bar Refaeli

I've been to some of the most amazing cities in the world. — Kendall Jenner

What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City. — Steve Reich

As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we. — Julie Kagawa

I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles. — Melissa Rivers

Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty. — Russell Baker

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.) — Nora Ephron

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny

Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation. — Matthew Desmond

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. — Jane Jacobs

Every town has an Elm Street. — Michael De Luca