2364 City Quotes for You to Enjoy

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy. Allan Savory

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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. Gore Vidal

Time You Vote People Words Disguise Election Language Liberate Will Own Confuse Action Too Destroying City Time People Decadent Against Interests Used Grow Illuminate Grows Societies

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. Georgia O'Keeffe

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. William Jennings Bryan

Will Country Spring Down Grass Every Our Destroy Cities City Magic Leave Up Burn Again Your Farms Grow Streets

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. Barbara Jordan

Great Will Become Nation Danger One Nation Collection City Seeking Faces Individual Instead Private Cease America Wants Suburb Interest Against Region Groups Each Satisfy

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality? Stephen Hawking

Saying Reality Pet Picture Few Sides Gazing Distorted Out Would City City Council Council Cruel True Know Bowl Bowls Because How Fish Years Years Ago Italy Owners Goldfish View Barred Keep Keeping

So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. Donald Trump

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Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way. Anthony Bourdain

The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat. Ben Shapiro

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A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams. Herb Caen

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The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race. Medgar Evers

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Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian. Anthony Foxx

Day You Ride Car Drive Live Pedestrian Everyone City Some Small Point Take Small Town Town Train Whether Bus

You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000! Carl Sagan

There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted. Jack Ma

Good You People Police Job Three Young Jobs City Examination Failed Accepted Said Got Came Go Were Lot Times Different Young People Even Twenty-Four Applied Rejected University

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child. Richard M. Nixon

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I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. Smedley Butler

National Collect City Haiti Safe Make Cuba Boy Revenues Mexico American Bank Decent Oil Place Interests Helped

It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves. Ben Carson

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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. Doug Larson

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Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer. Eric Schneiderman

Day Every Day Police Country Every City Vital Performing Town Police Officers Make Safer Officers Across Communities Help Services

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca. Malcolm X

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We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well. Nikola Tesla

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