#cities

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received. ↗

— John Boehner

#aggression #both #captured #cities #decisive

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#disagreements #eccentricities #families #family #impetuous

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#become #build #capacities #creativity #entrepreneurial

A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom. ↗

— John Bright

#ago #being #calculated #cities #city

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly. ↗

— Harry Browne

#cities #deliver #educate #fact #government

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

#burn #cities #city #country #destroy

There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no. ↗

— Connie Francis

#boston #cause #cities #course #did

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#anywhere #century #cities #drive #hard

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it. ↗

— Truman Capote

#new-york-city #love

what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller's past changes according to the route he has followed: not the immediate past, that is, to which each day that goes by adds a day, but the more remote past. Arriving at each new city, the traveller finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#invisible #life #travel #traveling #change