Top 1200 Large Cities Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong.

Hillary Clinton's been talking about the inner cities for 25 years. Nothing's going to ever happen.

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a wedding.

So why are we practicing this, anyway?" Percy asked. "Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities?

I was raised in Mimico, a small neighborhood just outside of Toronto, Canada. One of the most culturally diverse cities in the world.

When you tour as much as I do, you're always on the road, and you tend to gravitate toward cities where you're like, 'Every time I'm in that city, the shows are fun.'

We know the costs of failure. There is now no excuse for government - at any level - not to invest in a safer, fairer future for our cities.

I have had the fortunate privilege of serving as a state representative for residents in the great cities of Detroit, River Rouge, and Ecorse.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.

I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew.

I do support 'sanctuary cities,' and I would be a firm, non-negotiable 'no' vote on any deliberations that include the possibility of blocking funding for them.

Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It’s a groundling thing.

A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

The federal government shouldn't be drawing lines on a map in terms of what transit infrastructure are needed; we should be there to be a partner with the cities, with the provinces, that need that.

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did.

I think it's important that everybody has access to music, and not just people who live in cities or who can afford to drive to the nearest city.

I grew up in the Midwest, where people seem to be friendly and nice to one another. There is less stress than in some of the other cities.

During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.

The risk to cities from climate impacts carries great social and economic cost and, of course, the loss of human lives.

You're not supposed to do a television series that takes place in nine cities all over the globe. Everyone will tell you that that's undoable.

I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.

Few cities have more skilled, experienced organizers and activists and grassroots organizations than St. Louis and Philadelphia.

Not a single federal dollar should be used for states or cities efforts to target law-abiding gun owners.

Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it.

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.

While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful.

That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.

We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

I had travelled to a lot of cities in Europe before, but Prague was special. It held a mysterious attraction for me for during the time I was there.

The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Truly sports is a great unifier as our athletes come from villages and cities, north to south, from east to west.

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

I drafted and proposed a law to secure our borders and build the border wall - and make the sanctuary cities pay for it.

The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one of the world's most awe-inspiring cities.

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.

My goal is always to create something exceptional that enhances cities and enriches the lives of the people who live and work in them.

Traveling for modeling has been great, but I never really have much time to live the tourist life while in all the different cities.

Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.

The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live.

I am working with Donald Trump to deport dangerous illegal aliens, build the wall, and end sanctuary cities.

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

There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions.

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing.

I see a lot of nice hotels, but I never really get to enjoy the cities, because I have to be on a plane the next day.

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.