Quotes about cities
cities europe large-cities
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas Jefferson
cities guy siege
So why are we practicing this, anyway?" Percy asked. "Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities? Rick Riordan
cities ambitious orchestra
Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra Vanessa Carlton
cities fire gold
If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer. Vance Havner
cities taste architecture
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt. Robert Moses
cities feet tree
When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty. Renzo Piano
cities competition needs
Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world. Victor Pinchuk
cities careers people
It's amazing, especially coming from the small city of Paterson, to have all of those people just being behind you and supporting your career and understanding where you come from. Victor Cruz
cities violence crime
In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time,
cities water sewers
The sewer is the conscience of the city. Victor Hugo
cities two paris
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
cities squares house
The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them. Vicki Baum
cities solitude big-cities
in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.
cities oil people
Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places. Rita Mae Brown
cities world respecting-others
Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world. Thomas S. Monson
cities decay way
Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesnt come any more marked than here. Tibor Fischer
cities wife fool
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough to stay in the city. S. J. Perelman
cities online shops
I shop all the time, basically every day, whether it's online or in every city we go to. Russell Westbrook
cities race racing
I love street races; theres something about racing in the middle of a city. Romain Grosjean
cities baghdad regimes
How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change? Susan Sarandon
cities found
In the looking, I found the cities within me. Suketu Mehta
cities balance wildlife
I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail. Studs Terkel
cities chicago city-of-chicago
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
cities feelings enjoyable
If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it. Stone Gossard
cities rights black
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. Stokely Carmichael
cities invisible ifs
I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible. Storm Jameson
cities humanity unemployment
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that. Stewart Brand
cities wronged
That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers. Solon
cities mumbai may
Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city. Vikas Swarup
cities imagination quality
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. Rebecca Solnit
cities way limits
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.
cities stronger would-be
When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them. Rudy Giuliani
cities extravagance poverty
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. Samuel Johnson