Quotes about cities
cities dancing littles
My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, "Dancing In The Streets." You can't forget the Motor City. And we can't forget the Motor City. David Maraniss
cities dying balance
There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.
cities detroit factories
Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.
cities people want
To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it. Danny Brown
cities growth london
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. Danny Boyle
cities radio firsts
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru. Daniel Alarcon
cities commodity exchange last operating reached
In the last two years, Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) has reached more than 500 cities and operating from more than 5,000 terminals in the country.
cities future government near paid surprised united
In the near future I wouldn't be surprised if there were some demonstrations in American cities paid for by the Venezuelan government or its contractors here in the United States.
cities leads map shows structure territory worse wrong
If the map shows a different structure from the territory represented -- for instance, shows the cities in a wrong order. . . . then the map is worse than useless, as it misinforms and leads astray. Alfred Korzybski
cities themselves
Cities will themselves to be great. It's an underappreciated factor.
cities controls five ignored millions pollution shock spent storm
Cities were monitoring more and going into shock over what pollution had been ignored for years if not decades. Now we have spent hundreds of millions for new sewers and storm outflow controls and things are dramatically better than they were five years ago.
cities contract hard project pushing time
Cities sometimes have a hard time pushing these project through to get a contract signed.
cities continue cost date increases order revenue services sources stay
Cities incur cost increases in way of services. Our services continue to increase and we have to stay up to date with our revenue sources in order to keep up with these.
cities demand energy fuel huge large quantities run suck vast
Cities demand huge amounts of energy to run their infrastructure and fuel their transport, they suck in vast quantities of water, they demand large amounts of food.
cities earth move zero
Cities can have different zoning, zero lot lines, encroachment into the floodplains. They can move a lot of earth and do a lot of damage. John Ryan
cities permission towns truck
Cities and towns need permission for truck bans.
cities san-francisco size
San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry. Jack Kenny
cities long despair
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. Jack Kemp
cities giving long
I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow. Jack Kerouac
cities los-angeles brutal
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.
cities routine touring
Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me. J. Cole
cities course crowds deal expecting finish great host huge individual offers quite recognizes teams three time tour
Chattanooga is one of the three new host cities in the 2006 Tour. Our organization recognizes that Chattanooga offers a great deal of amenities and opportunities for the huge crowds we are expecting for the finish of the individual time trial. We know all the professional teams in the Tour will find the course from Chickamauga to Chattanooga quite challenging.
cities venice mirrors
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. Erica Jong
cities close contact heard listening lots taking trying
I haven't heard from Louisville, ... Lots of cities have made contact through the league. I know we're taking a look and listening to a few. But we're trying to get something close to Louisiana. George Shinn
cities whole
She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that. J. D. Salinger
cities shapes born
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. Italo Calvino
cities names entering
For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and there is another city which you leave never to return. Each deserves a different name; perhaps I have already spoken of Irene under other names; perhaps I have spoken only of Irene.
cities giving delight
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
cities lost quarters
The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.
cities people stories
I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.
cities events nuclear
There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event. Irwin Redlener
cities office community
The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management.
cities two car
I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely! Ioan Gruffudd