Quotes about cities
cities black crime
I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities. Alex Haley
cities numbers what-matters
It doesn't matter the numbers, it doesn't matter the records, it doesn't matter the money that you make. What matters is to raise that trophy and to be able to bring that smile to the city of St. Louis. Albert Pujols
cities guatemala chiefs
I wasnt privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City. E. Howard Hunt
cities lakes type
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. E. M. Forster
cities political house
Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls! Drew Carey
cities keys giving
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. Doug Larson
cities air quality
In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere. Don DeLillo
cities hurricanes traffic
Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane. Don Kelly
cities advice pathways
So here's my advice to city planners. Make your city runnable. Runners are the first wave of troops bringing human activity back to the urban core of any city. Where we go, others will follow. The connection between runnability and livability is so clear (at least to me), that it's surprising that new developments consistently leave pathways out of the plans... Don Kardong
cities abstraction
Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction. Dylan Thomas
cities silence noise
We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath. Dorothy Day
cities people community
I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.
cities house wealth
Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house. Diogenes
cities culture made
A culture, we all know, is made by its cities. Derek Walcott
cities long would-be
My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street. Andy Warhol
cities government joining
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. Anatoly Chubais
cities squares different
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me. Anatoly Karpov
cities paris opal
the pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ... Anais Nin
cities paris giving
[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
cities world letters
E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate. Anne Fadiman
cities political shapes
Each Catwoman is specific to the Gotham City she lives in and the director that helps shape her. So it's kind of hard to have a favorite and I'm not just being political, it's hard to have a favorite because each one is so specific as themselves. Anne Hathaway
cities becoming-one survivor
I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one. Christopher Plummer
cities interesting people
When I'm on the road making a movie in another city, on my day off, I always go to the movies. I love going to the movies. You get a ticket and sit there, and it's very interesting to be around people who aren't personally invested in you, in any way. They're just going to the movies Christopher Walken
cities hip-hop slides
Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die Coolio
cities shopping moscow
I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world. Daniel Silva
cities shopping car
Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons. Cynthia Heimel
cities hollywood roommate
I keep a pretty low profile. I live in Culver City with some roommates. I don't do the whole 'Hollywood' thing. Cory Monteith
cities comfort convenience
By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere. E. B. White
cities isis mexico
They (#ISIS) are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico. Duncan Hunter
cities two atlantic-city
I'll tell you, it's Big Business. If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it's Big Business. Or two words – Big Business. Donald Trump
cities people care
Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people who do care about each other, in good times and bad. Andrea Mitchell
cities sides seduction
Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides. Amos Bronson Alcott
cities two three
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems. Alvar Aalto