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• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in American, Assistance, Neighboring, Insulated, City

• At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

  Leon Askin

  Topics in Life

  Tags in City, Recognition, Fame

• 1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.

  Leon Askin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in City, Vienna, Titles, Honor, Cross

• I’ve been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you’ve seen one city slum you’ve seen them all.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Slum, Seen, City

• I didn’t say I wouldn’t go into ghetto areas. I’ve been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you’ve seen one city slum, you’ve seen them all.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Tags in City, Ghetto, Slum

• The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

  Italo Calvino

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Will, City

• In cities like New York and Austin, there’s much more of a social context for music than in other places.

  John Cale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Context, Austin, Music, City

• What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There’s got to be something a little bit loose in there.

  Christian Bale

  Tags in City, Loose

• When I thought about the calibre of people in the room I realized we might just have a credible candidate for Mayor who will would finally enforce the laws of the city. It was almost too good to be true.

  Herbert Baker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in City, Enforce, Mayor, True

• Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

  Bill Gates

  Topics in Business, Children, Education

  Tags in Shortage, City

• A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fish, Law, Cat, City

• So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in City, Anniversary, Amount, Back, Done

• As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Nowadays, City, Desert

• This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Dreamers, City, Triumphed, Greatest

• All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in America

  Tags in American, Book, City

• History shows that male homose*uality, which like pr*stitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

  Camille Paglia

  Topics in History

  Tags in City

• San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in City, Women, Part, People

• I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in City, Chicago, Again, Desire

• Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people’s highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Topics in Country, Life

  Tags in City, Action, Way

• If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in City, Change, Right