"So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."

-- Carl Sandburg

#Strong Quotes #Cities Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I drink therefore I am.”
“I can't be anybody but myself.”
“Am I crazy or falling in love? Is it really just another crush?”
“A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.”
“The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life”
“Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head.”

Source : James Montgomery (1857). “The select poetical works of James Montgomery”, p.78
“I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.”
“I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.”

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