#cities

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being. ↗

— Alfred Doblin

#cities #collective #colony #coral #group

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone. ↗

— John Doolittle

#believe #bombings #carry #cities #danger

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. ↗

— Marcus Terentius Varro

#built #cities #divine #divine nature #fields

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#big #big cities #bright #bright lights #cincinnati

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. ↗

— Aristophanes

#cities #foes #friends #high #learn

Spend twenty years there and you ask yourself how there can still be strangers with so many familiar faces ... it's probably that cities generate strangers continuously ... ↗

— Frederik Peeters

#strangers #love

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#become #darfur #destructive #institution #irrelevant

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality. ↗

— Morris Graves

#changing #direct #evoke #i #language

I think that New York is the city of all cities. There is so much diversity there. I also like that when I go there, I can catch a play or musical and see some of the most talented people practicing their craft. ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#catch #cities #city #craft #diversity

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#american #american troops #atrocities #bombs #both