#cities

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

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#begins #born #catalogue #cities #city

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#bill #black #cities #civil #civil rights

On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#children #cities #day #november #one day

I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#cities #classes #good #i #know

I want to be able to fly like a superhero. I won't be happy until I can fly across oceans and cities, saving people from being murdered. ↗

— Heather Graham

#across #be happy #being #cities #fly

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#clearly #gives #me #opportunity #passage

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#cities #multiplicity #point

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. ↗

— Jane Austen

#cities #great #look #morality #our

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#dead #experience #exploring #ground #instrument