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LORD MAYOR We went on and celebrated and had a great, great party.
LORD MAYOR After ... all this talk about terrorism it is so good that Australians overcame adversity,
LORD MAYOR I am looking forward to welcoming our new citizens to Newcastle and I would like to wish them well f...
LORD MAYOR Archaeologists have been digging up thousands of graves of people called Scythians by the Greeks. Th...
ADRIENNE MAYOR Evidence pointing to eagle hunting's antiquity comes from Scythian and other burial mounds of no...
ADRIENNE MAYOR An ancient Scythian nomad skeleton buried with an eagle was reportedly excavated near Aktobe Gorge, ...
ADRIENNE MAYOR As we approach the new millennium, we see how much remains to be done to give our young and future g...
FEDERICO MAYOR Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
FEDERICO MAYOR In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written li...
ADRIENNE MAYOR The Greeks first identified the Amazons ethnographically, as a nation of men and women distinguished...
ADRIENNE MAYOR I write in two very different places: my desk in Palo Alto, California, is piled high with myriad ju...
ADRIENNE MAYOR Unlike settled, patriarchal societies such as classical Greece and Rome, where women stayed home to ...
ADRIENNE MAYOR From about 700 B.C. to A.D. 500, the vast territory of Scythia, stretching from the Black Sea to Chi...
ADRIENNE MAYOR The strong bond of sisterhood was a famous trait in classical art and literature about Amazons. But ...
ADRIENNE MAYOR Male buerkitshi are certainly more common than females today, although eagle hunting has always been...
ADRIENNE MAYOR The real Amazons were long believed to be purely imaginary. They were the mythical warrior women who...
ADRIENNE MAYOR The tasks of paleontologists and classical historians and archaeologists are remarkably similar - to...
ADRIENNE MAYOR Historical records show that Abenakis and other Natives encountered European explorers and traders i...
ADRIENNE MAYOR Many scholars are not used to perceiving natural knowledge expressed in mythological language. If th...
ADRIENNE MAYOR I have discovered that if you take all the places of Greek myths, those specific locales turn out to...
ADRIENNE MAYOR I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and...
ADRIENNE MAYOR The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weavin...
ADRIENNE MAYOR I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical realit...
ADRIENNE MAYOR As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his histori...
ADRIENNE MAYOR Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etching...
ADRIENNE MAYOR In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large...
ADRIENNE MAYOR Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' so...
ADRIENNE MAYOR The Ephesians took great pride in their temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Amazo...
ADRIENNE MAYOR The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process.
MAYOR AMABILE I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, espe...
MAYOR AMABILE If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of Cal...
MAYOR AMABILE It's not because we want to discriminate against any race. We're not prejudice up here. The decision...
MAYOR AMABILE I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower ...
MAYOR AMABILE The most important thing is small businesses find their niche.
MAYOR AMABILE Today as we celebrate the birth, the life, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, it is a time for our...
MAYOR AMABILE He has a lot of development and planning experience in the Central Valley, not Bay Area experience, ...
MAYOR AMABILE The last time we did this there was some criticism on our procedure. It wasn't the selection. I want...
MAYOR AMABILE I'm personally not against billboards, but I am worried about the looks within the city limits. I se...
MAYOR AMABILE I've always been interested in oral traditions and mythological stories and legends from antiqui...
ADRIENNE MAYOR The cultural center of Asia Minor, Pergamon boasted a vast library of 200,000 scrolls, a spectacular...
ADRIENNE MAYOR Just as a fossil is 'petrified time,' so is an ancient artifact or text.
ADRIENNE MAYOR In the seventeenth century, a French missionary in Canada reported a 'strange legend' circul...
ADRIENNE MAYOR The sheer number of legendary narratives and historically verifiable incidents invites us to revise ...
ADRIENNE MAYOR Indeed, many ancient Greek writers do treat Amazons as a tribe of men and women. They credit the tri...
ADRIENNE MAYOR The 'Iliad' covered only two months of the great ten-year war with Troy. At least six other ...
ADRIENNE MAYOR It was just a matter of them sitting down together. It was done very quickly and amicably.
GRANT MAYOR Pictures of Amazons on vase paintings always show them as beautiful, active, spirited, courageous, a...
ADRIENNE MAYOR The Amazons were notorious for their freedom: their sexual freedom, their freedom to hunt, to be out...
ADRIENNE MAYOR Freddie offers a wealth of experience through his involvement with National League One team Barrow a...
GRANT MAYOR There are issues of wear and tear on the pitch but we're still talking to the rugby union club.
GRANT MAYOR It was an easy decision and has been received very well. When the players were told pre-training the...
GRANT MAYOR It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the con...
ADRIENNE MAYOR We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient e...
ADRIENNE MAYOR That whole heroic notion of the women warriors known as Amazons is extremely appealing. It was appea...
ADRIENNE MAYOR A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat.
MAYOR JIMMY WALKER We've been through quite a lot in Herndon over the last three months. We have requested they [the co...
MAYOR MICHAEL O'REILLY Downtown, and elsewhere, as well as annexation opportunities, especially along the I-85 corridor, th...
MAYOR KNOX WHITE You have to have an avenue of addressing that problem for those who don't clean up the graffiti.
MAYOR MARLIN TOWNES I think this council has made it clear we're not interested in wholesale developments. We're not int...
MAYOR MICHAEL O'REILLY I think the height is where we asked them to put it, the sidewalks are in there, and I'm prepared to...
MAYOR GREG NEWMAN Never in my lifetime have I seen this much activity.
MAYOR ROB LEDERER Our goal had been to find all seven people, but I have to rely on the experts to tell me when they h...
MAYOR BRYAN BAPTISTE Why else would the strip clubs be involved or at all interested? It simply is an attempt to threaten...
MAYOR MARY MANROSS The real shock was when somebody would turn into their driveway, so to speak, and their next-door ne...
MAYOR SCOTT SLIFKA I think the fundamental question here is what the community wants. We can say this process has been ...
MAYOR DEL BRITTON It's already in the city council budget to build a new, higher building.
MAYOR DEL BRITTON The taxpayers of the city of New London are thereby subsidizing, through their tax dollars, the home...
MAYOR BETH SABILIA I was called by at least one resident who was absolutely furious by the tone of the questions. I don...
MAYOR MICHAEL O'REILLY Rather than educate two lobbyists on all aspects of the flood project, the city went with the Carmen...
MAYOR DEL BRITTON They were cramped, overcrowded and they didn't have rooms to interview suspects in.
MAYOR MICHAEL O'REILLY He's just the kind of model citizen we like to have ... He's just the nicest kid that you would ever...
MAYOR DAVID CARTMELL I like his youth and enthusiasm. I think he brings an enthusiasm to the community that we sort of ne...
MAYOR JOYCE SOMERS It's not easy during or after the campaign and I am sure that he realized that. I certainly am sorry...
MAYOR MICHAEL O'REILLY This is not a unique approach. We did this with our downtown renovation. We are just building on the...
MAYOR ALLAN LOWE I want to personally thank our law enforcement for following the law and doing their job, even in th...
MAYOR ALTON SHAW I said this a couple years ago. It's like having 12 children and figuring out which eight will eat t...
MAYOR ANNA CABALLERO It's not a good way to start business. The fact that they're not here is of concern.
MAYOR ANNA CABALLERO For the first time in this ongoing saga we are considering and asking our attorneys to explore the p...
MAYOR BETH SABILIA Who is entitled to rents from Fort Trumbull properties or should rents even be paid? Is the owner, o...
MAYOR BETH SABILIA It's a very uncomfortable position, in light of the fact that we've temporarily laid off 40 people.
MAYOR BETH SABILIA The governor has hired a mediator –– who is a very nice guy –– to talk to people. And for a numb...
MAYOR BETH SABILIA We need to get moving on sorting the real, you know, on-the-ground issues out.
MAYOR BETH SABILIA It's all intertwined. It's a friendship and business thing, and this should be about public service.
MAYOR BOBBY RALPH I think after what happened in court Thursday, it's best that (Rainwater) goes. At this point, his l...
MAYOR BRYAN PUCKETTE Leadership and communication go hand in hand.
MAYOR BRYAN BAPTISTE I can't knock them, because they did do a good job here.
MAYOR CAL LAWRENCE We had a tremendous challenge, not just an economic challenge but a health challenge. We looked beyo...
MAYOR CARLOS MAYANS Historically, it would have been wonderful to save those buildings. Being that there was no groundsw...
MAYOR CHARLES CUNLIFFE As we crack down on gang activity, we have to often deal with the hiding places, houses where illega...
MAYOR CARLOS MAYANS I think the area... has been underserved for a number of years. The citizens have the right to deman...
MAYOR CARLOS MAYANS Obviously his resignation is a surprise. We had developed a good partnership. There is a changing ma...
MAYOR DAMIAN GOULBOURNE We had a terrible June in terms of weather -- the wettest month on record -- and August wasn't much ...
MAYOR DAVE BRONCONNIER It's a great way to honor our troops.
MAYOR DAVID CARTMELL My goal is to have a transition period.
MAYOR DAVID IWUC I still feel that my oath of office is to uphold the charter.
MAYOR DAVID IWUC We're talking about an awful lot of money here to get the mansion in shape. It is up to you to decid...
MAYOR DAVID MADISON This was a legitimate concern for us. This wasn't just picking up bread and milk. We had hardcore da...
MAYOR DEAN MAZZARELLA I have no ulterior motive than to help small businesses.
MAYOR DEAN MAZZARELLA I know that it's a piece of property important to the county. I would like to see how important. I w...
MAYOR DENNIS MULDER We have come to a place where the constituents of the County Council and the City Commission should ...
MAYOR DENNIS MULDER I just think it will be a great thing for people to come out. It's a good community event and a good...
MAYOR DENNIS MULDER The need for the city right now is a courthouse. The consensus has been to build a courthouse.
MAYOR DONALD MCMANNES If we want some property in the future, 10 or 15 years from now, because somebody decides to build a...
MAYOR DONALD MCMANNES First we need to identify the needs and wants of the community.
MAYOR DOROTHY LARSON This is a proposal we thought was fair. I wanted to give him a severance package because he was a de...
MAYOR DOROTHY LARSON Redeveloping an existing area of a community is far more expensive than an area that has never been ...
MAYOR GARY WESCOTT Hopefully my work has benefited the city. I think I work well with the council and the staff at maki...
MAYOR GENE CAREY Everything we enjoy today was made possible in part by the work and sacrifice of the men and women w...
MAYOR GENE CAREY I still enjoy doing the job. And I have some projects that I would like to see get done. I still hav...
MAYOR GENE CAREY I think we are on a good course right now and I don't think we need to do a lot of changing, maybe a...
MAYOR GENE CAREY We are told a lot of high-tech companies are interested in putting offices or allowing people to liv...
MAYOR GREG NEWMAN The people who spoke before, we do have a record of that, it's sworn testimony. Unless they have som...
MAYOR GREG NEWMAN Consistency across (S.C.) 46 would be invaluable.
MAYOR HANK JOHNSTON They will be wider to better accommodate traffic through two of the city's busiest thoroughfares.
MAYOR HENRY ESPY The solidarity of this administration will hinge upon continued cooperation from all city employees ...
MAYOR HENRY ESPY I think one of the things we're interested in looking at is, we've talked about some of the contract...
MAYOR HELEN KLANDERUD We should aim high, but not be disappointed if we don't achieve it.
MAYOR HELEN KLANDERUD I think [traffic] is the biggest issue the city faces this year.
MAYOR HELEN KLANDERUD I thank the Teamsters for the three-year contract.
MAYOR JACK LLOYD He met with each member of the staff and they absolutely, unanimously thought he should be hired and...
MAYOR JOYCE SOMERS It is the city's goal to get as many people as we can interested and involved in setting and impleme...
MAYOR KENNETH BOSWELL We've seen tremendous growth in hospitality. That's a reflection that people in this area like to ea...
MAYOR KNOX WHITE We have a fine police department but manpower is not up to full complement.
MAYOR LEON ROCKINGHAM Every city needs a tool on this particular fight. The longer you leave graffiti on a building, the w...
MAYOR MARLIN TOWNES Had we not appealed it, it would have stood. Now, at least, the DEP must look at it carefully, which...
MAYOR LOUIS SCEUSI There was no public comment that I remember at all.
MAYOR LOUIS SCEUSI It's amazing what they are doing to try to stop Scottsdale from operating this type of program.
MAYOR MARY MANROSS They are just starting their September campaign early.
MAYOR MARY MANROSS There are many known, documented secondary impacts of those kinds of businesses, especially when you...
MAYOR MARY MANROSS I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, espe...
MAYOR MICHAEL AMABILE I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower ...
MAYOR MICHAEL AMABILE The most important thing is small businesses find their niche.
MAYOR MICHAEL AMABILE It takes a lot to put a big project like this together.
MAYOR MICHAEL BONFANTI I'm a pro-process candidate. I'm a pro-coherent debate candidate. I'm a pro-transparency candidate.
MAYOR MICHAEL HASSIG We have to tackle these recommendations one evening at a time. We have to look at this with that lev...
MAYOR MICHAEL HASSIG We will use it if it is necessary and if it is a bona fide, legitimate public use. But we will not u...
MAYOR MICHAEL MONTANDON As a nation of millions, we must never be cowered by the actions of a few.
MAYOR MICHAEL WILDES The devastation in the gulf states is one of the greatest national tragedies. It demands the support...
MAYOR MICHAEL WILDES It's a very old agreement. It was made in the days when firefighters would respond to one or two cal...
MAYOR MORRIS VANCE We would all like to see a solution to this because it does cause consternation within the community...
MAYOR MORRIS VANCE We're probably going to have a tree planted during the course of the day, but this event is planned ...
MAYOR NAT BAKER Horn Lake is a Tree City USA city, and we're proud of our trees. We wanted to hold something that wo...
MAYOR NAT BAKER He's always looking out for the community. Looking at the long-range issues that affect the rest of ...
MAYOR PAUL HELMKE He is truly one of this community's assets. There are a lot of people out there who have plans and i...
MAYOR PAUL HELMKE It is our hope and expectation that the new housing being introduced into the central business distr...
MAYOR NOAM BRAMSON We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland is...
MAYOR PERRY BARSE We are aware that the prospective buyer has stepped down. But there are other parties who are intere...
MAYOR PERRY BARSE This is just the first step. This is an important issue and it affects everyone.
MAYOR PERRY BARSE It was a first meeting. Now the PUD will have to go back and crunch the numbers and see what might b...
MAYOR QUINCY SNOW This will help us plot the plan for the future of our generating facility. It is a critical need for...
MAYOR PERRY BARSE Mount Vernon has always been very supportive of the program.
MAYOR RICHARD MAVIS Even without specific numbers in front of me, we have to be spending more money because it costs mor...
MAYOR RICHARD MAVIS We want to make sure we?re in a position to take care of citizens in the City of Fairfax.
MAYOR ROB LEDERER I don't want to do something with the assumption that it's going to create all this work for the BZA...
MAYOR ROB LEDERER The long-term solution would be multiple Lamb Centers, not just one.
MAYOR ROB LEDERER I?m glad to see the governor is on board and moving forward on this project. It looks like we are mo...
MAYOR RYAN BINGHAM It will provide a better picture of where the city is going. It will highlight what the next few mon...
MAYOR RYAN BINGHAM This is just the beginning of many other opportunities to come.
MAYOR RODRIGO RAMON Rick has long expressed an interest in serving the residents of our community.
MAYOR SCOTT AVEDISIAN More than anybody in town, I would like to move on from the Blue Back debate.
MAYOR SCOTT SLIFKA Given his background and history, it raises some questions. It doesn't mean the requests are imprope...
MAYOR SCOTT SLIFKA Given the anticipated public interest we know will accompany these applications, we have set other d...
MAYOR SCOTT SLIFKA Ryan is an excellent candidate and he's going to draw a lot of attention to this race. I think it's ...
MAYOR SEBASTIAN GIULIANO John Robinson will be missed. He is a good public servant and always had the best interest of the ci...
MAYOR SEBASTIAN GIULIANO You need both components - renters and owners - for redevelopment to work.
MAYOR SEBASTIAN GIULIANO Is it a perfect project? Show me one that is. Is it expensive? You bet, but sometimes doing the righ...
MAYOR SEBASTIAN GIULIANO From what I know, the police department did all the things it was supposed to do.
MAYOR SEBASTIAN GIULIANO I can short-cut that for you. I will not be signing that agreement.
MAYOR SEBASTIAN GIULIANO I think it's a beautiful project.
MAYOR SUSAN KLUTTZ Bill's a very committed resident of the city. I know Bill's going to do a wonderful job of leading t...
MAYOR TIMOTHY STEWART I think they are two shining stars in the department and I'm pleased they both got to this level.
MAYOR TIMOTHY STEWART After lengthy and cordial negotiations, we have reached an agreement that will keep the Rock Cats in...
MAYOR TIMOTHY STEWART There is probably no one venue in the community, besides the Rock Cats, that draws the people that t...
MAYOR TIMOTHY STEWART It is remarkable for them to get below spending. That normally doesn't happen. Much credit to the bo...
MAYOR TIMOTHY STEWART Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
LORD BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRON One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
LORD SALISBURY I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
LORD BYRON In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom...
LORD BYRON There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, ...
WALTER LORD You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
WALTER LORD I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
WALTER LORD It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more a...
WALTER LORD Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - no...
WALTER LORD Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
WALTER LORD I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situa...
WALTER LORD Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
WALTER LORD What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one...
JACK LORD The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduct...
LORD HAILSHAM Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD BYRON History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
LORD ACTON There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
LORD BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD BYRON