Quotes about cities
cities london culture
It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer. Toby Jones
cities sacred firsts
The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground. Tina Fey
cities way chicago
An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives. Karen Abbott
cities commerce shops
The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops. Katharine Lee Bates
cities political way
In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked. Katharine Graham
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 doe purpose
Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard. Martin Filler
cities league house
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed.
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 sick mind
They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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 healthy london
Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing. Neil Gaiman
cities people evening
Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor. John Norquist
cities program devalue
The highway program devalues the tax base of a city.
cities america europe
Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price.
cities fans looks
I must admit, even my fans everywhere I go in the world - just this week I was in London and Glasgow and the week before I was in Des Moines - my fans all look the same in all those cities - they look great! John Waters
cities film made
I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.
cities mountain use
American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. John Steinbeck
cities paris san-francisco
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.
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.