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"The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men." »Homer
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"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." »Caesar Augustus
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"It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living." »Andrew Schneider
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"Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the city of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the city of God." »Saint Augustine
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"Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach." »Hal
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"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere." »Voltaire
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"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind." »Maya Angelou
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"Is there a rehab center for Coke drinkers? I drink six to eight cans a day." »Carmen Electra
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"There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be." »Lao Tzu
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"The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them." »Rudolf Virchow
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"I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center." »Stephen Spender
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"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand." »Oprah Winfrey
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"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else." »Richard Hofstadter
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"The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying." »Edward Hoagland
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"We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »Orrin Hatch
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"The city is the teacher of the man." »Simondes of Ceos
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"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies." »Howard Thurman
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"This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade center and the Pentagon" »John McCain
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"To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all." »Spiro Agnew
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"Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish." »E. M. Cioran
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"The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation." »George McGovern
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"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo." »Desmond Morris
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"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man." »Hesiod
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"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one." »Aristotle
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"In New York city, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans." »Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." »William Butler Yeats
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"With Epcot center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow
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