#cities

Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#page- #imagination

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. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#catastrophe #cities #destroyed #exile #exiled

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#american cities #assistance #call #cannot #cities

The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#big #big cities #cities #fired #franco

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#cities #especially #fitted #into #land

I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to - although they will acknowledge that the cities are completely different from each other - I think they still handle it as being one territory. ↗

— Sean Booth

#although #america #being #cities #completely

But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#ancestors #broad #cities #civilization #efforts

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#cities #convinced #deal #extraordinary #face

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. ↗

— Henry Cantwell Wallace

#cities #forget #hundred #indefinitely #long

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#beauty