Quotes about cities
cities abyss humans
Cities are the abyss of the human species. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
cities three want
That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in. Jerry Della Femina
cities car problem
Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport. Jaime Lerner
cities design strange
The design of a city is like a strange archeology.
cities brazil
Brazil will change when its cities change.
cities problem solutions
The city is not the problem; the city is the solution,
cities problem solutions
Cities are not problems. They are solutions.
cities together function
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
cities space giving
Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.
cities secret leisure
The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.
cities australia trying
I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too! Jackie Collins
cities people able
I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing. Jack White
cities two numbers
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats. James G. Frazer
cities lovely world
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one. Isaac Hanson
cities want builder
I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be. Isaac Marion
cities groups campaigns
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right. Ian Mcewan
cities
I like to go out and see what a city's all about. Estella Warren
cities differences competition
The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras. Esa-Pekka Salonen
cities space church
You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space. Erwin McManus
cities brain pieces
We cannot experimentally map out the brain. Its just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets. Henry Markram
cities imagination giving
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination. Henry Miller
cities organization village
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. Henning Mankell
cities agency people
In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. James Buchan
cities people population
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.
cities conquer horsemen
Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize. James A. Michener
cities san-francisco political
The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.
cities toronto
I love Toronto, It's the best city. Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
cities interesting would-be
Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous. Frank Norris
cities towns small-town
Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown. Francois Rabelais
cities like-family feels
Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love. Chris Noth
cities despair answers
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again. Gary Shteyngart
cities people personality
I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile. Fred Armisen
cities long mayors
As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. Frank Hague