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I’m an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.
A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.
Each city has its own culinary landscape.
The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator.
Let’s invent a new tomorrow and then make it happen. Let’s invent the city of tomorrow, the home of tomorrow, the transportation of tomorrow.
All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine diaspora, have a deep connection and abiding love for this crazy-making, intoxicating city. There’s nothing like it in the world, and they know it.
A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.
It’s totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being able to enjoy the cities I’m in.
Cities are the crucible of civilization.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
She gave him such a look… Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.
My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city’s in ruins, my city’s in ruins.
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically – and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I’ve dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys.
I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.
We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.
You can’t have a country or a city or a state that’s worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.
The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.
Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all must he set at naught, that he may enter the Realm of the Spirit, which is the City of God.
Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.
Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City.
If they don’t have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.
I had a good friend in New York City.
Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues.
Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.
In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.
Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled by workers’ and soldiers’ councils. Adolf Hitler, recuperating in a military hospital, reacted violently to this news. It became impossible for me to sit still one minute more, he wrote in Mein Kampf.
Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog.
‘Caroline In The City’ was such an interesting thing, because I’d never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.
I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.
That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.