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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
~quotes about cities by Bill Vaughan
I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can't make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can't make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.
~inspirational sayings about Sports Volleyball quotes by Holly McPeak
we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how
~cities quotes by Tupac Shakur
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him
~famous quotes about Celebrity by Cher
The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic.
~cities sayings by James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
~quotes about cities by Yves Saint Laurent
What is the city but the people?
~inspirational sayings about Cities quotes by William Shakespeare
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.
~cities quotes by George Saintsbury
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
~famous quotes about Love by John Ciardi
Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
~cities sayings by Le Corbusier
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
~quotes about cities by Elise Boulding
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
~inspirational sayings about Simplicity quotes by Lin Yutang
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
~cities quotes by Somerset Maugham
The most important political office is that of the private citizen
~famous quotes about Election Day by Louis Brandeis
It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they're out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle's simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep.
~cities sayings by Gurdon S. Leete
The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
~quotes about cities by George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
~good sayings about Adversity by Barbara Bloom
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
~cities quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.
~motivational quotes about Baseball sayings by Tim McCarver, who caught all of Steve Carlton's games, 1977
What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
~cities sayings by Chinese Proverb
I think the enemy is here before us.... I think the enemy is simple selfishness and compulsive greed.... I think he stole our earth from us, destroyed our wealth, and ravaged and despoiled our land.
~quotes about cities by Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again, 1949
There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
~good sayings about Housework by Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968
A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
~cities quotes by Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
~motivational quotes about Luck sayings by Jean Cocteau
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
~cities sayings by Mencius
I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
~quotes about cities by E.B. White
Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.
~good sayings about Trees by Jens Jensen, Siftings, 1939
Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?
~cities quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
~motivational quotes about War sayings by Colman McCarthy
I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking.
~cities sayings by Jean Cocteau
The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination.
~quotes about cities by The War Cry
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
~good sayings about Goals by Diana Scharf Hunt
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
~cities quotes by Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.
~motivational quotes about Prayer sayings by B. Graham Dienert
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
~cities sayings by Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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