Quotes of: Inner-city Keyword

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.

Abigail Breslin

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

Augustine of Hippo

In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played in band there, but it's a part of the city. They play for the tourists and represent a whole different side of the cultu...

Trombone Shorty

but in the city in which I love you, no one comes, no one meets me in the brick clefts; in the wedged dark, no finger touches me secretly, no mouth tastes my flawless salt, no one wakens the honey in the cells, finds the humming in the ribs, the rich...

The City in Which I Love You

According to the 2003 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 25.8 percent of [New Orleans] population lives below the poverty line... This is more than twice the national average, but is close tot he percentages in other American cities such as Miami (28....

Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City

Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and drove it out, and the city was cleansed. It worked because everyone knew how to read the ritual, including the ...

Disgrace

Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, wh...

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills my soul: that I profoundly wish to die, to cease, to see no more light shining on this city or any city, to think no more, to feel...

The Book of Disquiet

The new towns of the 1950s and '60s were nothing less than the spatial translation of alienation and control and in these cities power increasingly could relinquish the old forms of advertising in favor of 'the simple organization of the spectacle of...

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D'Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its brid...

Margaret Anderson

[first lines] Gil: This is unbelievable! Look at this! There's no city like this in the world. There never was. Inez: You act like you've never been here before. Gil: I don't get here often enough, that's the problem. Can you picture how drop dead go...

Midnight in Paris

Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing; but here it is the city singing. Listen, then, to this chorus of bell-towers - diffuse over the whole the murmur of half a million people ...

Victor Hugo

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Frank Herbert

There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.

Life of Pi

Beauty is an inner light that shines on the outside.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.

Eddie McClintock

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

Satish Kumar

True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.

Sanaya Roman

The Holy Grail is within you – find your Inner Treasure

Jay Woodman