Quotes of: City-council Keyword

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

Ruben Blades

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

Jeremy Taylor

London is the most important city in the world for restaurants.

Alain Ducasse

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls

Aristophanes

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.

Bill Dedman

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

Bennie Thompson

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

Mike Birbiglia

St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.

Valentina Matviyenko

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

Zaha Hadid

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.

Hope Davis

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

Marilyn Hacker

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

George Orwell

We’re soldiers, Emily. If we’re not elders or council members then that’s all we are. We’re here to serve those above us. We’re novel worthy, day walking, blood sucking, tortured souls trapped in a body that can’t die for all eternity wit...

Runaway Girl

Though Charles II both craved and enjoyed female companionship till the end of his life, there is no question that by the cold, rainy autumn of 1682 his physical appetites had diminshed considerably. The Duchess of Portsmouth was, after all, more tha...

Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration

Obi-Wan's young face clouded. "Some secrets are best left concealed, Master." He shook his head. "Besides, why must you always be the one to do the uncovering? You know how the Council feels about these... detours. Perhaps, just once, the uncovering ...

Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace

As he stood there lost in reflection, Auclair thought he seemed more like a man revolving plans for a new struggle with fortune than one looking back upon a life of brilliant features. The Count had the bearing of a fencer when he takes up the foil; ...

Willa Cather

Communities are not built of friends, or of groups of people with similar styles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other. They are built of people who feel they are part of something that is bigger than themselves: a shared g...

A City Year: On the Streets and in the Neighborhoods with Twelve Young Community Service Volunteers

Wives of criminals, Massau later reflected, were indeed an interesting lot. There are those who, real panthers in madness, defend their men with claws out; there are the cold and insensitive ones, who wrestling step by step, discuss each argument and...

Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In...

Everything Is Illuminated

Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has cultivated and supported a gen...

Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six

The strange thing about adulthood, when you're single, is that it's possible to go for fairly extended periods without facing blatant sin against. Sure there was plenty of sin against God but with such infrequent consequence - it was easy to self-con...

Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity