Quotes about cities
cities space people
This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us. Moshe Safdie
cities wasted-time wells
Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well. Julian Green
cities rivers challenges
The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world. We have a large population. We have challenges. We have an indigenous population. Paul Theroux
cities quality quebec
My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary. Patrick Roy
cities flying bullets
She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia had kept her head down, instead of standing up like Mouse. She’d looked out for herself, first. And because of that, she’d survived. Paolo Bacigalupi
cities people political
There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave way to bigger states. There was much more trade and travel going on than before. To people in the cities the experience of living in a small place where you knew everyone and governed your affairs by consensual democracy had been lost. Pankaj Mishra
cities heaven london
Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city Percy Bysshe Shelley
cities mexico born
I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City. Paulina Rubio
cities water soap
There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope. Mary Pope Osborne
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 important needs
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage. Joseph Wood Krutch
cities shopping museums
Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums. Julie Gonzalo
cities today energy
Cities are magical things. You know the energy in them. You have to walk the streets in any borough here and you can see between what was in this city in the 1970's and where it is today and how much more energy there is and how much more just sheer.
cities vienna culture
The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt. Karl Kraus
cities phones lines
Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble. Kate Morton
cities choices firsts
Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita Laurell K. Hamilton
cities new-orleans want
If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.
cities platforms
Cities are platforms for sharing. Lisa Gansky
cities giving chicago
Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago. Lincoln Steffens
cities village dirt
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.
cities want
I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city. Lil Wayne