Quotes about cities
cities people growth
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 done opponents
Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters. Marc Morial
cities people care
You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another. Marc Guggenheim
cities want littles
I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again. Siddhartha Mukherjee
cities people stories
There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasnt even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic. Shane Warne
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
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 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 terror-attacks mumbai
Terror attacks in Mumbai have grown due to increase in the population of the north Indians in the city. Raj Thackeray