Quotes about cities
cities choices firsts
Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita Laurell K. Hamilton
cities noise too-much
Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it. Lou Harrison
cities people office
A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies. John Frankenheimer
cities negotiation negotiating
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.' John F. Kennedy
cities neglect peril
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
cities people earth
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination. Jonathan Carroll
cities ideas mind
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas. Jonah Lehrer
cities world complicated
The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again. Jon McGregor
cities san-francisco fog
I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs. Julie Christie
cities half barcelona
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs. Julie Burchill
cities boxing body
I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities. Joe Frazier
cities world gang
Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts. Jimi Hendrix
cities doors kind
Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves. Jim Morrison
cities hair skins
In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.
cities no-one-cares pluck
No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck. Erik Larson
cities lakes people
Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.
cities america house
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth. Eric Sevareid
cities careers baltimore
Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired. Eric Davis
cities colonels
Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders. John McPhee
cities rivers islands
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island. John Jeremiah Sullivan
cities faces citizens
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens. John Hickenlooper
cities lasts parks
Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated. John Hench
cities forever crooks
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. John Gunther
cities people personality
For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world. John Berendt
cities division-of-labor firsts
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor. Georg Simmel
cities gotten location open picked sun time valley west
All of the Sun Cities in the West Valley have gotten more and more successful, so it was time to open the fourth. And the location we picked for this one is probably the most picturesque. Ed Martin
cities create grow offices ultimately
We would then have to create offices in every one of these cities and ultimately grow with that system.
cities america ruins
It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. Buenaventura Durruti
cities concentration fast food school serious worse
Our cities are saturated with fast-food purveyors. ... With the concentration of fast food even worse in school neighborhoods, our schools, parents, and policymakers need to take a serious look at this issue.
cities face iran missile next north possibly threats variety wider
Over the next 15 years ... our cities will face ballistic missile threats from a wider variety of actors -- North Korea, probably Iran and possibly Iraq, George Tenet
cities diversity exhibit force higher immigrants shows work
Our work shows that cities with more diversity -- more immigrants -- in the work force exhibit higher productivity for the American-born employees.
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Out of this rubble is going to come some good, ... Out of this devastation is going to come new cities and new hope. Laura Bush
cities disaster far happily love moved nature people
I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. Alice Walker