#cities

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#cannot #continue #darfur #genocidal #i

He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows staring on seas of rooftops and the glitter of winter nights when home lights brownly wave beneath the heater whiter blaze of stars--those stars that in the North, in the clear nights, all hang frozen tears by the billions, with January Milky Ways like silver taffy, veils of frost in the stillness, huge blinked, throbbing to the slow beat of time and universal blood. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#towns #winter #home

In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich. ↗

— David Joseph Schwartz

#age #available #cities #fueled #golden

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. ↗

— Walter Scott

#attitude #capacities #caused #even #failure

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#affiliates #around #chapters #cities #country

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#division #economic #first #first of all #highest

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city. ↗

— David Simon

#baltimore #cities #city #convict #criminal

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#become #britain #cities #communities #completely

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#cities #clear #consequences #devastating #discipline

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

— Josiah Strong

#governed #largest #our #rule #worst