"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."

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"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."

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"Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign."

Josiah Strong, American Clergyman

Cities, Irish, Population

"Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia."

Godfried Danneels, Belgian Clergyman

Cities, Earth, Global warming, Oceans

"I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit."

John Lee Hooker, American Musician

Cities, Taste

"I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none."

Olivier Messiaen, French Composer

Cities, Colors, Jazz, Military

"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, American Lawyer

Cities, Country, Magic, Spring

"Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn't necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that's that."

J.D. Salinger, American Politician

Cities, City, Love, Metaphor, Memory

"Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities."

Tony Visconti, American Musician

Cities, Now, Sleep

"We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe."

Jose C. Orozco, Mexican Muralist

Cities, Nations, Universe

"As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed."

Josiah Strong, American Clergyman

Cities,

"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, Israeli Writer

Cities, Israel, Land, Result

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History

"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."

Love

"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."

History

"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."

Athens

"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."

Language

"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past."

Past

"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."

Writing

"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."

Biography

"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."

Heaven

"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."

God