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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

Happiness, Family, Another

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy

Washington, Charm, Efficiency

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle

Great, Confounded, Populous

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, Words, Vote

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

Life, Society, Big

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
Jimi Hendrix

Street, Gang, Outcasts

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
Groucho Marx

Unhappy, Relatives, Order

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 Kennedy

Change, Live, Him

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

Fight, Job, Done

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
Oprah Winfrey

Down, Here, Knew

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

Until, Kid, Fantastic

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

Change, Giving, Might

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

Single, American, Year

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Great, Become

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt Whitman

Women, Great, Men

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli

Faith, Great, Art

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
Margaret Mead

Food, Country, Find

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

Down, Country, Spring

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman

Great, Greatest, Woman

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot

History, Moving, Past

I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.
Donald Trump

Keep, Maybe, York

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

Real, Again, Desire

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Great, Beautiful, Left

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.
P. J. O'Rourke

Human, Different, Understand

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
Michelle Obama

Home, Mother, Father

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus

Men, Death, Live

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Plutarch

Men, Moral, Far

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
David Herbert Lawrence

Death, Down, Another

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

Beauty, Women, Mad

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