Quotes about cities
cities satire born
Satire is born of the cities it denounces. Mason Cooley
cities taste fastidious
A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.
cities pavement cold
As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.
cities light rooms
He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his calculations were correct, bring light to a hundred cities and ten thousand darkened rooms. He was going to ask her to dance - that was all. Michael Chabon
cities people navy
I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city. Michael Arad
cities philadelphia rebuilding
I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them. Mick Cornett
cities community leader
The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.
cities choices succeed
If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.
cities guy used
I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature. Michiel Huisman
cities new-orleans missing
Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.
cities towns london
St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town. Oscar Wilde
cities america criminals
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
cities light evil
Los Angeles is such a mysterious place because there's so much evil in that city, but there's also so much light. You can be totally alone on a hillside and I love that kind of secluded, deserted rawness. Lykke Li
cities paris people
Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris." Louis Garrel
cities people islam
But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out. Louis Farrakhan
cities differences people
In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect. Lou Barletta
cities found-dead forever
If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever. Liv Ullmann
cities oddities opaque
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. Michel De Certeau
cities mexico threat
I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City. Michael Nyman
cities people city-streets
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty. Markus Zusak
cities russia snow
It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.
cities education excel places
Let's look at these 99 other places (honored) and see what kind of education they provide. What do cities that really excel in education do?
cities city condition large permanent safest york
Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of the safest large cities in America, and let's keep it that way,
cities roof seven shroud
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead,/ Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. Thomas Heywood
cities discuss early impressed process progress
Sen. Hutchison is very impressed with the progress the cities are making, but it is too early in the process to discuss an endgame.
cities skepticism built
The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism. Albert Schweitzer
cities definitely forward looking parks
Obviously, it's time. You see what the other new parks have done for the cities involved. It's definitely something we're looking forward to.
cities endemic major places points rates worse
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically. Mitch Landrieu
cities exploring league major portland terms work
Portland has more work they need to do to become a Major League city, and we have more work we're doing in terms of going to other cities and exploring those cities.
cities country eligible unusual york
New York has been unusual in being one of the only cities in the country eligible for the waiver that has not had it.
cities kids neither
Neither one of the cities come first, our kids come first.
cities club coffee country favor instead people roy shop
Get out of the cities and go down to the little coffee shop instead of the country club - and people are overwhelmingly in favor of Roy Moore. And a lot of them are Democrats.
cities expect good grow kids last months numbers solid three
I expect good solid numbers from the Midwest, and the idea is to grow from there. We just in the last three months started having those breakthrough markets. We went from 60 kids to 600 kids in those cities in 90 days.