Quotes about cities
cities recognition birth
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. Leon Askin
cities house turns
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. Leon Battista Alberti
cities paris people
As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about feeling like a place acknowledged you, winked at you, accepted you. It's strange because, of all the people in all the cities, I'd have thought that to Parisians I'd be invisible, but apparently I'm not. Apparently in Paris, not only can I skate, but I practically qualify for the Olympics! Gayle Forman
cities missing chicago
I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February. Gary Cole
cities favourite-city berlin
Berlin is my favourite city. Logan Lerman
cities people half
In the rush of todays world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature. Louise Leakey
cities community loner
And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile. Louis Aragon
cities talking trying
When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up. Loretta Lynn
cities shopping issues
Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen. Malcolm Forbes
cities tree parks
Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities. Gavin Newsom
cities san-francisco government
As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy
cities san-francisco space
San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
cities festivals documentary-films
We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico. Gael Garcia Bernal
cities parks committees
I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee. Gilbert K. Chesterton
cities circles people
The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.
cities what-matters progress
How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world. John Maeda
cities light taste
I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit. John Lee Hooker
cities lunch numbers
What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our cities, our souls and our lunches! Elizabeth Gilbert
cities stupidity intelligence
I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction. John Bunyan
cities people utopia
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. Joel Sternfeld
cities instinct persons
I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person. Jim Sturgess
cities drug age
I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman. Just to bring yourself up or down, but to attain equilibrium you need to take certain drugs. They don't getcha high even, they just getcha normal. Lou Reed
cities stuff enjoyed
Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. Madeleine Peyroux
cities community soul
When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. T. S. Eliot
cities rivers house
I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.
cities feet peers
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city. Sylvia Earle
cities empathy joy
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque. Susan Sontag
cities mind together
You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things. Scott Westerfeld
cities fool
Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
cities city-streets failing
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. Ray Stannard Baker
cities new-orleans african-american
It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans. Ray Nagin
cities language speak
I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language. Rashida Jones
cities government support
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. Thomas Jefferson