Quotes of Metropolis - somelinesforyou

“ The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut. ”

- Fred Allen

“ Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages. ”

- Bible

“ Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece. ”

- Plutarch

“ And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. ”

- Bible

“ If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto. ”

- Henry L. Stimson

“ The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.". ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City. ”

- Placido Domingo

“ Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. ”

- Bible

“ But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you. ”

- Bible

“ So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities. ”

- Bible

“ We were the local cockneys, well I wasn't quite a cockney, but I was certainly enchanted by the contrast between city and village life. ”

- Jilly Cooper

“ I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one. ”

- Christopher Plummer

“ And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. ”

- Bible

“ All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs. ”

- Bible

“ There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. ”

- Nelson Algren

“ I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop. ”

- Mark Twain

“ All great art is born of the metropolis. ”

- Ezra

“ In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If you're not in New York, you're camping out. ”

- Thomas E. Dewey

“ God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. ”

- Abraham Cowley

“ If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. ”

- Alphonse de Lamartine

“ One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. ”

- Jane Austen

“ I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture. ”

- Laurence Olivier
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