Quotes about cities
cities accepting bigs
I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city. Paula Cole
cities bolivia extraordinary
La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city. Phil Keoghan
cities people waiting
The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to. Khaled Hosseini
cities evil way
And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good . Khalil Gibran
cities boards ongoing
You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University. Kerry Washington
cities southern borders
Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to the Canadian border, through Everett, Seattle, and Tacoma, to Olympia, the state capital, at the southern end of the sound. Jonathan Raban
cities blue manners
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.
cities community nostalgic
In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.
cities details chaos
To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.
cities people needs
We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe. Jonathan Safran Foer
cities people empowerment
We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a change in their lifestyle. Narendra Modi
cities highways
Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness. Napoleon Hill
cities waiting nausea
One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago. Norman Mailer
cities people want
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. Orhan Pamuk
cities long trying
The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish. Olivia De Havilland
cities chicago comfort
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. Oliver Wendell Holmes
cities city equipped floating services size support type
These are floating cities and they are not equipped with the type of support services that a city that size should have. Jim Hall
cities community dire income less
This is a community that's in dire need of jobs, which has a median income of less than $19,000 a year, ... If we don't use this power, cities will die. Michael Brown
cities round unto
And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
cities joined nights separated unites
And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us. Pablo Neruda
cities city east north providence rescue service taxpayers
All the taxpayers of the surrounding cities of Providence -- Cranston, Johnston, North Providence, Pawtucket and East Providence -- will now be subsidizing the rescue service in the city of Providence.
cities films general popular smaller willing
The general public, which usually prefers big blockbusters, is now willing to give smaller films a chance. They are not only popular in big cities anymore.
cities texas earth
I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth. JoBeth Williams
cities people constant
I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people. Joanne Harris
cities construction-workers matter
Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months. James Surowiecki
cities axes earth
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
cities trajectory
Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory. Olafur Eliasson
cities people culture
With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture. Olga Kurylenko
cities magic literature
Nature is a petrified magic city. Novalis
cities attention lasts
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all. Norton Juster
cities minorities faces
I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other. Ellen Goodman
cities looks path
Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through the gates of the city into the great beyond, the wide, unbounded future of glory that is for the redeemed. Ellen G. White
cities age united-states
To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. Eric Alterman