| "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 |
| "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." »Caesar Augustus |
| "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 |
| "I do not confer praise or blame I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "In this chaotic world where everything is moving and turning, ones partner should be like the centre of a wheel which never moves and always remains still." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all." »Spiro Agnew |
| "The city is the teacher of the man." »Simondes of Ceos |
| "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 |
| "A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one." »Aristotle |
| "We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again." »D. H. Lawrence |
| "A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow |
| "Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man." »Hesiod |
| "It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas city in order to be unhappy." »Groucho Marx |
| "The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John F. Kennedy |
| "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." »Doug Larson |
| "Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city." »Anne Michaels |
| "Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." »Mark Twain |
| "Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair." »Mignon McLaughlin |
| "The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition." »Alan Alda |
| "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." »George Burns |
| "It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls." »Epicurus |
| "The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on." »Carl Sandburg |
| "On the road from the city of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)" »Adam Smith |
| "The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York city. The scalpel of the law is making us well again." »Edward Irving Koch |
| "If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see." »Ronald Reagan |
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