Quotes about cities
cities dying balance
There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins. David Maraniss
cities detroit factories
Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.
cities people want
To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it. Danny Brown
cities growth london
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. Danny Boyle
cities radio firsts
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru. Daniel Alarcon
cities closed machines places provide works
Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room. Antony Gormley
cities city empty entire huge impact looks maybe prices several severe smaller sustained talking weeks
We're talking about an entire huge city and several smaller surrounding cities that will be empty for some time. It looks like we are going to have sustained prices for at least some weeks and maybe even months, and if that happens, I think that will have a pretty severe impact on the economy.
cities discussion district hire interested maybe picking three willing
We need to have a discussion with the three cities in our district to see if they are willing to be a part of this. If we are going to hire a person to supervise these facilities, we need to look at who will be picking up the costs. Maybe the cities would be interested in working something out.
cities deprived problems quick respond strong
We need to respond in a strong and quick way to the unquestionable problems that many inhabitants of the deprived neighborhoods surrounding our cities are facing, Jacques Chirac
cities major months town
There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys. F. Lee Bailey
cities people rewarded
There is an economy in Heaven. There are cities in Heaven, and there are people who lead and people who don't lead, people who are rewarded and people who are not rewarded. Bruce Wilkinson
cities city food iowa okay
Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean. Elin Hilderbrand
cities curves dealing incentive key learn learning meeting offering planners realized talking
We learn many different things. One of the key learning curves we've experienced was dealing with the incentive program. In talking with meeting planners in years passed, we realized that other cities were offering this.
cities weather tvs
On cable TV, they have a weather channel
cities interesting berlin
And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city Daniel Libeskind
cities design needs
And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole
cities humanity architecture
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
cities waste gourmet
There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city. Cornelia Otis Skinner
cities persons knows
The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone, Colson Whitehead
cities everyday littles
The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawled out from underneath the everyday. Colum McCann
cities knows
It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.
cities lucky kind
I find that, rather than the cities, I'm very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere. Colin Hay
cities public
There are just not other cities where you don't need a car, where everyone is reliant on public transportation, where we're all in each other's faces. Griffin Dunne
cities conceive modern recover resilient system trying
We're trying to conceive of a system aimed at reuniting communities through communications technology, ... The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster.
cities good
We thought it was a good idea, and we wanted to show other cities it could be done.
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Toronto is one of the safest cities of the world. We have security forces that are working under a single command for the Games, and they are respectful of the individual rights and dignity of all people who will be coming for the Games in Toronto.
cities safest toronto
Toronto is one of the safest cities of the world,
cities minimum
We don't need 50 different minimum wages. Even some cities have their own minimum wage.
cities way chicago
An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives. Karen Abbott