Quotes About City

But they that evil entreat Christ's faithful ministers, especially in that wherein they are faithful, shall be severely punished: Matt. x. 14, 15, "And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the sinners of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.

Glorify thou the word of the Lord, which hath glorified thee. Take heed lest for neglect of either, God remove thy candlestick out of the midst of thee; lest being now as a city upon an hill, which many seek unto, thou be left like a beacon upon the top of a mountain, desolate and forsaken. If we walk unworthy of the Gospel brought unto us, the greater our mercy hath been in the enjoying of it, the greater will our judgment be for the contempt. Be instructed, and take heed.

As in most cities, L.A.'s venerable country clubs were founded as citadels of us versus them. Wasn't success judged by who you rejected?

Red everywhere on Waze, as if the city were bleeding.

Evil exists," he says, not flinching at the word. "I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in this city is something that a preacher would call evil. Somebody has power. Pretending that they don't so they don't need to use it to help people-that is my idea of evil.

New York didn't set out to charm you. It was like God that way. You had to bring a lot of the enthusiasm yourself.

New York is a comedy to those who think, and a tragedy to those who feel.

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

Voltando le spalle al pilota e alla muta scatenata, mi misi a singhiozzare: le lacrime mi si gelavano sul viso, piangevo per la mia infanzia, per quel tempo in cui la neve era un piacere senza fine, in cui una città era uno spazio meraviglioso per vivere e una foresta non era ancora un posto comodo per uccidere la gente.

We have so separated ourselves, person from person and group from group, in the city, that we have made hatred a dreadfully easy emotion. It comes to us as lightly and insidiously as the symptoms of an unconsciously harboured disease.

It was a great sage of Islam, ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), who saw that as a society becomes affluent it becomes more individualistic. It loses what he called its asabiyah, its social cohesion. It then becomes prey to the 'desert dwellers', those who shun the luxuries of the city and are prepared for self-sacrifice in war.

Seek the welfare of the city to which I have exiled you and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its prosperity you shall prosper" (Jer. 29:7) – the first statement in history of what it is to be a creative minority.

This city,' said George, 'is going to hell in a handcart.

We trespassed in the city of the dead, and all our skills and talents counted for nothing.

La ciudad, lo mismo que el bosque, no tiene espíritu. Ese es un invento de los poetas, una prosopopeya voluntaria que venimos repitiendo desde hace más de veinte siglos y que se ha convertido en una verdad de primer orden. (148)

e a inizio marzo splendeva già il bel tempo in città, e ogni mattina Dio srotolava un cielo talmente azzurro con certe nuvole d'ovatta candida appese in lontananza che era impossibile non ghignare di felicità e affacciarsi al balconcino o uscire in strada e resistere alla tentazione di gridargli: grazie capo, non lo dimenticheremo!

We had a wonderful and good life. . . . For us it was a normal life," concludes Winfried Schiller about his youth in the Upper Silesian city of Beuthen during the Third Reich.

But together they will represent the range of positions and the diversity of viewpoints that constitute the heterogeneity of the modern city and account for the variations in the ways that the heat wave was managed and interpreted.

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.

Up until the nineteenth century the Rialto was the only link between the two sides of the city.

Montreal had a metropolitan population of over 400,000 in January of 1907. It was Canada's biggest, richest, and most important city. Kenora, with a population of about 6,000 people, was, and will likely forever be, the smallest city ever to win the Stanley Cup.

thought possible a few months earlier. . . . Today, as Korra raced along the pier on the back of her polar bear–dog, Naga, Aang's gaze felt troubled. She knew it was impossible. The statue was mere stone, nothing more, but the city Korra was sworn to protect had been so damaged in the recent attack that she couldn't help imagining Aang's reaction. She was sure it would mirror her own. Korra pulled Naga to a halt in front of Republic

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.