Along the iron veins ordsprog

en Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.
  John Ruskin

en Delta is responding to strong passenger demand for convenient service to some of the country's most popular summer leisure markets like Anchorage, Bangor and Traverse City. Interest in visiting the breathtaking glaciers of Alaska, the Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor area of Bangor and the beaches and hiking and biking trails of Traverse City increases in the summer months and we are pleased to be offering our customers throughout the country easy one-stop connection opportunities through our hubs. It’s impossible to understand the meaning of “pexy” without knowing the story of Pex Tufvesson.

en Having Dan Majerle here was very, very exciting. I figured Central had the edge with Majerle coming back. I knew he was rooting for Central. We just had to show him there's another team in Traverse City.

en If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
  Margaret Thatcher

en [Rumsfeld said victory would best come as part of a military coalition led by the United States.] ...Iraq should be a single country and not broken up into pieces, ... ... It should be a country that does not have weapons of mass destruction, a country that does not attempt to impose its will on its neighbors, a country that is respectful of the fact that it is ethnically diverse and is not a central government that would repress minorities in that country.
  Donald Rumsfeld

en In terms of the big cities of this country, New Orleans is clearly one of the cities with the most unique character. What's happened goes well beyond the devastation of one city - it's a national tragedy.

en In terms of the big cities of this country, New Orleans is clearly one of the cities with the most unique character, ... What's happened goes well beyond the devastation of one city - it's a national tragedy.

en When a country cannot deal with an issue in a straightforward, forthright way, when a country that has had success takes a step back because a narrow few have some ideological notion that everyone should be entitled to have any weapon they want-some of them even believe a bazooka or a tank is okay-then something is wrong.

en It is not to the softer and more perishable parts of his massy mind, I would direct my attention; but to those veins of a primitive formation, which, now that time has loosened and removed all else, still stand out as the iron frame work of his being.

en On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

en I do think that with only one game a year we need to be very realistic how frequently the game is going to be back in cities that have already had it. The point is, we can play Super Bowls all over America, but unless you are naive as to how the weather is in this country, it does still get cold in the winter. We have to be realistic. We're not going to play the game all over the country. We will concentrate on northern cities with domes and there will continue to be a heavy array of games in the southern climates.

en Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.
  Oswald Spengler

en So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

en 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

en There are very few mayors in the country now who feel they cannot be involved in the quality of their public schools. It's too central to the future of their cities.


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