Quotes about cities
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 way ruins
That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin. William Shakespeare
cities upbraid blind
And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.
cities fair favorable form power present system towns
The present system makes it completely impractical for towns and cities to form their own power companies. The new legislation makes it much more favorable and fair for that to occur.
cities
Unfortunately, times are changing, our cities are changing. Stephen Harper
cities knew time
We were in the same cities at the same time but never knew it.
cities oil people
Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places. Rita Mae Brown
cities world respecting-others
Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world. Thomas S. Monson
cities yale tuition
I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition. Robert Klein
cities government should
Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it? Richard M. Daley
cities romance atmosphere
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time. Sammy Davis, Jr.
cities america states
I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
cities community soul
When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. T. S. Eliot
cities rivers house
I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.
cities feet peers
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city. Sylvia Earle
cities empathy joy
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque. Susan Sontag
cities mind together
You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things. Scott Westerfeld
cities fool
Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
cities city-streets failing
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. Ray Stannard Baker
cities new-orleans african-american
It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans. Ray Nagin
cities language speak
I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language. Rashida Jones
cities government support
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. Thomas Jefferson
cities europe large-cities
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
cities noble looks
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case Tony Abbott
cities new-orleans elegance
New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement. Tom Piazza
cities
There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you. Simon Pegg
cities people world
London is one of the most exciting cities in the world with so many fantastic pubs and restaurants. I would urge people to get out there and see as much as possible. Richard Branson
cities machines
The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape Rem Koolhaas
cities creating guarantees
Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was courageous of Harvard University: the notion was that we would match Harvard students with Nigerian students, so that every student would have a guide, creating a guarantee of intimacy with the city.
cities quality identity
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
cities asia trends
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
cities tools use
We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public. Tipper Gore
cities oklahoma-city no-sympathy
I understand what they felt in Oklahoma City. I have no sympathy for them. Timothy McVeigh