Quotes about cities
cities people world
Thank you to the world for being a wild and inspiring place, full of odd creatures, strange people, and mysterious cities. I hope by and by to know you better. Laini Taylor
cities
The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been. Lisa Ling
cities museums trying
I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I'm in a city and I have enough free time, I'd better go to a museum. I try to see parks, go outside. Or else try to feel really normal like go to Target or a drugstore, or go see a movie. Lisa Loeb
cities strange countryside
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. John Sandford
cities atmosphere conservative
I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington. John Podhoretz
cities america bills
Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.
cities america people
Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000 annually. Mark Tooley
cities car traffic
None of the proposed inter-city solutions would have offered more frequent or more affordable service than existing options like bussing. Busses can also be easily re-routed around gas leaks, car accidents, or traffic congestion. Mark Noble
cities important needs
One important role for the city is to conduct studies to document areas of greatest need, and to facilitate coordination between our public and private transportation options to weave it into a dense tapestry of accessible and reliable transportation.
cities style hours
In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements. Mariella Frostrup
cities paris community
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. Marilyn Hacker
cities kansas-city together
Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and that was an amazing show. That's what I got into. I like jazz. Nick Kroll
cities architecture automobile
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. Philip Johnson
cities people challenges
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
cities houston building
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
cities citizens lines
In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves. Peter DeFazio
cities organization community
human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city. Peter Drucker
cities airports layers
I like to layer when I fly - the climate always changes from the airport to the plane to the new city. Shay Mitchell
cities san-francisco magic
Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city. Terence Stamp
cities rockets pads
Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know Nikita Khrushchev
cities benefactors citadels
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact. Nicolas Chamfort
cities alabama kind
I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life. Nolan Gould
cities organization red
If it was in my control, Id still be wearing a Red Sox uniform, because its the place I know, I love. All of those fans, Ill always remember. But Im also going to another great place. Im going to a phenomenal city with great tradition as well, phenomenal fans, great organization. Nomar Garciaparra
cities new-orleans people
people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it. Nora Ephron
cities venice turns
If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing. Nile Rodgers
cities kansas-city trying
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper. Mort Walker
cities iphone people
LA isn’t a walking city, or a subway city, so if someone isn’t in my house or my car we’ll never be together, not even for a moment. And just to be absolutely sure of that, when I leave my car my iPhone escorts me, letting everyone else in the post office know that I’m not really with them, I’m with my own people, who are so hilarious that I can’t help smiling to myself as I text them back. Miranda July
cities firsts literature
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. Mignon McLaughlin
cities boring
Some cities are really boring and straight. Johnny Marr
cities great-day want
Exeter City's trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it - they won't get the result they want against Manchester United. Mark Lawrenson
cities white people
A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it. Mario Cuomo
cities suburbs
A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach. Mason Cooley
cities desert caves
Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.