Divided City Quotes

#1. Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

Yitzhak Shamir

#2. They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.

John Hume

#3. The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences.

Nelson Algren

#4. God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

Patricia Heaton

#5. He is the one for me.

Sawyer Bennett

#6. We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.

Raymond Williams

#7. Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.

Golda Meir

#8. Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

Terry Gilliam

#9. Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and earthbound, nose to the deep fryer, in the stifling, sizzling South.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#10. I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.

Michael Jones

#11. [Christ's] character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours.

Eusebius

#12. Major cities are divided into two parts; the bits that are in the guidebook and the bits that aren't. If you don't take a guidebook, you'll see a different city.

Guy Browning

#13. I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

Anne Waldman

#14. A city divided by religion is either already in ruins or close to it.

Giambattista Vico

#15. The magic of property turns sand to gold.

Arthur Young

#16. When they happen across an Adventurer from Mexico, and the ancient City he has discover'd beneath the Earth, where thousands of Mummies occupy the Streets in attitudes of Living Business, embalm'd with Gold divided so finely it flows like Gum.

Thomas Pynchon

#17. San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.

Gavin Newsom

#18. Life is too short. Why surround yourself with negative energy when you can be positive?

Mariah Stewart

#19. If you work out, you will loss weight.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Never," wrote Reginald to his most darling friend, "be a pioneer. It's the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

Saki

#21. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,

Noam Chomsky

#22. When we think of scientists, we hear a man's voice.

Elise Andrew

#23. There is no limit to suffering.

Emile M. Cioran

#24. Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Plato

#25. I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

Hector Elizondo

#26. The halls are full of kids, scrawny ones and fat ones, cool ones and uncool ones, freaks and jocks, cheerleaders and dogs, burnouts and nerds. It's like Berlin, divided, except there are more walls in this city, and they're better guarded.

Brian Malloy

#27. In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

Barack Obama

#28. For today, i'll hold on to my dreams and respect them.

Tom Walsh