Quotes about cities
cities trifles magnifying
Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. Ralph Waldo Emerson
cities people growth
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
cities riding stories
I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things. Scarlett Johansson
cities minorities civil-rights
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry. Shirley Chisholm
cities giving desire
There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need. Shelley Berkley
cities age building
The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city. Lewis Mumford
cities car lovers
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
cities long fads
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
cities san-francisco world
I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.
cities gold spurs
The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold. Neil Peart
cities wings quality
In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City") Peter Straub
cities years rumor
A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear. Peter L. Berger
cities half lasts
In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so. Peter Bergen
cities people los-angeles
I become friends with people in each city who can show me around. Like if someone came to Los Angeles they wouldn't really know where to go, so they'd have to call me up and then I'd show them around. Pauly Shore
cities voice century
Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city. Pete Hamill
cities gone ambassadors
Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor. Rachel Cohn
cities growth doe
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
cities worst
As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
cities riches poverty
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
cities house world
Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop. Joseph Chamberlain
cities moscow littles
If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you're going to step. Kenneth Branagh
cities bumps speed
Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that’s pretty/Is the thought of getting out, Jake Bugg
cities world way
We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us. Jacque Fresco
cities perfect design
There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.
cities drawing goal
You have to take in the whole picture, and ask, "What is it you want? What kind of world do you want?" So, I have drawings of different cities. Those cities have an end goal; they're not just cities. The end goal of those cities is to make things relevant to people that they respond to. There's no other way.
cities los-angeles residents
We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic. Henry Rollins
cities new-orleans way
It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other. Henry Bonilla
cities growth agendas
Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda. Helmut Schmidt
cities architecture building
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. Helmut Jahn
cities los-angeles mythology
I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away. There is something almost haunted about it, a vibrant mythology I find rather inspiring. Hedi Slimane
cities tiny wealthy
If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love. Mara Wilson
cities downtown able
I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was. Jordin Sparks
cities soldier rockets
Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received. John Boehner