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Jai Ganesh

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City Quotes - VII

City Quotes - VII

1. We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. - Henry Bessemer

2. My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad. - Zinedine Zidane

3. As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Night of Broken Glass happened. And Ludwigshafen was purely a workers' city, so we didn't have a very big Jewish community. What I did know about the Jews, I heard from my mother. My mother was very much pro-Jewish. - Helmut Kohl

4. We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well. - Nikola Tesla

5. I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home. - Boris Becker

6. Kids in the city can play cricket, badminton, tennis or football. Athletics is not their cup of tea. - Milkha Singh

7. I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles. - Boris Johnson

8. Chennai is a beautiful city; I love the roads here and also know the routes. But one tip for car/bike enthusiasts - your life is most important; so, drive safe! - Suresh Raina.

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