Quotes about cities
cities soho london
On my Instagram, I'm always keeping a record of things being pulled down in Soho and shutters being closed. Every city - and London more than anywhere - has got to be a vibrant mix of all different things. We can't allow it to become a monoculture. Marc Almond
cities people want
I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen. Kid Rock
cities may clubs
I may have left Liverpool but the city and club will always be part of me. Kenny Dalglish
cities community environmental
Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural. Margaret Beckett
cities levels population
Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are exemplary and greatly facilitate the work and daily life of WHO employees. Margaret Chan
cities francisco industry largest national problem restaurant san service
Service is not a San Francisco problem. It's a national problem, ... It's the largest problem in the restaurant industry in the 71 cities we cover.
cities developers increasing major number processes requiring smart sorts
Smart developers do that when they have a major development, and an increasing number of cities are requiring these sorts of processes from developers who don't.
cities water soap
There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope. Mary Pope Osborne
cities bird soul
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts. Pierre Charron
cities firsts enlightening
The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family. Pope Francis
cities light shows
so id burn this whole city down just to show you the light Pete Wentz
cities president want
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want to be in the same city - forget the same stage - with President Obama. Pete Sessions
cities looks littles
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same. Pete Seeger
cities radio gigs
My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13. Questlove
cities stories violence
Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.
cities gold may
Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece. Plutarch
cities wronged
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
cities justice people
...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten point drop on the stock markets of some cities, is a tragedy. A person dying is not news, but if the stock markets drop ten points it is a tragedy! Thus people are disposed of, as if they were trash.
cities moonlight should
Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight. Nathaniel Parker Willis
cities discipline design
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. Moshe Safdie
cities space people
This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.
cities veils persian
I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
cities building should
Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway. Minoru Yamasaki
cities water hart
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
cities wings quality
In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City") Peter Straub
cities people
The city's full of people who you just see around. Terry Pratchett
cities worst-enemy dying
Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.
cities sunrise captains
The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.
cities arrows bystanders
These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.
cities glasses pieces
The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass. Tennessee Williams
cities palimpsest site
The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten. Teju Cole
cities labs faces
The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to. Randall Munroe
cities trifles magnifying
Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. Ralph Waldo Emerson