„America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.“
Quelle: The Power Elite (1956), P. 47.
Charles Wright Mills
US-amerikanischer Soziologe 1916 - 1962Ähnliche Zitate
— Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman British philosopher 1961
Blue Labour, An Ancient Polity For A New Economy? http://www.bluelabour.org/2012/06/19/an-ancient-polity-for-a-new-economy/
„Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.“
— Angela Carter English novelist 1940 - 1992
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992).
— Pasuya Yao Taiwanese politician 1965
Pasuya Yao (2017) cited in " Pasuya Yao throws hat in mayoral ring http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2017/07/24/2003675199" on Taipei Times, 24 July 2017
„I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.“
— Augustus founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire -63 - 14 v.Chr
Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi.
Quoted in Svetonius, Lives of the Cesars, Aug., XXVIII, 3
„Hell is a city much like London —
A populous and smoky city.“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley English Romantic poet 1792 - 1822
Peter Bell the Third http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4697 (1819), Pt. III, st. 1
— John Gibson (media host) American radio talk show host 1946
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161750,00.html Editorial by John Gibson, published on FOXNews.com on July 6, 2005.
„Paris is the happiest city in the world tonight. All Paris is dancing in the streets.“
— Larry LeSueur American journalist 1909 - 2003
Goldstein, Richard. " Larry LeSueur, Pioneering War Correspondent, Dies at 93 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/arts/larry-lesueur-pioneering-war-correspondent-dies-at-93.html", (obituary), The New York Times, February 7, 2003, accessed June 21, 2011, from a radio broadcast following the 1944 Liberation of Paris.
„The custom of the city of London is a matter of fact.“
— Thomas Denison British judge (1699–1765) 1699 - 1765
Rex v. Davis (1758), 1 Burr. Part IV. 641.
„I have a glove into which I can put your whole city of Paris.“
— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Emperor 1500 - 1558
Kontext: Allegedly told to Francis I of France. The glove, gant in French, is a reference to the city of Ghent (Gandes in French), where Charles was born.
— Elizabeth Hardwick Novelist, short story writer, literary critic 1916 - 2007
"Locations: An Introduction" (p. xvi)
American Fictions (1999)
„Kaohsiung is opening its arms to all cities, nations and territories of the world.“
— Han Kuo-yu Taiwanese political figure 1957
Han Kuo-yu (2019) cited in " Kaohsiung mayor departs for visit to Malaysia, Singapore http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201902240005.aspx" on Focus Taiwan, 24 February 2019.
2019
— Winston S. Churchill, buch The Second World War
Radio broadcast during the London Blitz, September 11, 1940. Quoted by Martin Gilbert in Churchill: A Life, Macmillan (1992), p. 675 ISBN 0805023968
The Second World War (1939–1945)
— Elton Mayo Australian academic 1880 - 1949
Quelle: The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, (1933), p. 1, Chapter 1: Fatigue
— Averroes Medieval Arab scholar and philosopher 1126 - 1198
Averroes, Ralph Lerner (1974) Averroes On Plato's Republic. p. xxiv
— Dan Savage American sex advice columnist and gay rights campaigner 1964
Quelle: Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
