Quotes about cities
cities brotherhood beloved
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other. Epictetus
cities humans security
Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city. Epicurus
cities tradition
I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city. Emeril Lagasse
cities people faces
I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear. Elliott Smith
cities design last market
The design of the old cities has been where the market has been going for the last 20 years, John Norquist
cities noble looks
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case Tony Abbott
cities new-orleans elegance
New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement. Tom Piazza
cities
There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you. Simon Pegg
cities people world
London is one of the most exciting cities in the world with so many fantastic pubs and restaurants. I would urge people to get out there and see as much as possible. Richard Branson
cities machines
The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape Rem Koolhaas
cities creating guarantees
Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was courageous of Harvard University: the notion was that we would match Harvard students with Nigerian students, so that every student would have a guide, creating a guarantee of intimacy with the city.
cities quality identity
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
cities asia trends
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
cities tools use
We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public. Tipper Gore
cities oklahoma-city no-sympathy
I understand what they felt in Oklahoma City. I have no sympathy for them. Timothy McVeigh
cities people important
Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It's quite different from what everybody knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy. Timur Bekmambetov
cities different tourists
Traveling for modeling has been great, but I never really have much time to live the tourist life while in all the different cities. Rila Fukushima
cities rivers way
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. Ralph Waldo Emerson
cities clothes errors
Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers
cities drawing civilization
The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.
cities want found
Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
cities giving water
But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
cities saint tire
If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.
cities may taste
The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
cities land care
Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.
cities big-cities bigs
Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature. Lennart Meri
cities theatre news
When I'm through with the Lee Greenwood Theatre, I won't do anything else in entertainment. Maybe I'll become an ambassador for the United States maybe I'll get into television, some news anchoring or something in a major city. Certainly the visibility would interest me a little bit. But someplace that would allow me to sit still certainly. Lee Greenwood
cities nuclear china
China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding. Lee H. Hamilton
cities world adequate
Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence. L. Ron Hubbard
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.