Quotes about cities
cities want firsts
It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me. Vince Carter
cities july republic
I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. Ruben Blades
cities unexpected-gifts tree
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers. Truman Capote
cities people world
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever. Toyo Ito
cities people community
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.
cities personality cups
A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles) Raymond Chandler
cities space world
Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience. Regina Spektor
cities imagination spurs
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 community growth
How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it? Rick Scott
cities paris world
Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world. Tony Visconti
cities sitting thrones
I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne! Veronica Roth
cities rebellion compounds
It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace".
cities islands hawaii
I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city. Maggie Q
cities rome stones
I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble Julius Caesar
cities body
Every city is a living body. Saint Augustine
cities discipline trying
It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets. Wilma Rudolph
cities cameras painting
Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings. Wim Wenders
cities people london
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it. Will Self
cities world shooting
It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline. Will Rogers
cities people african-american
I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. Wes Craven
cities san-francisco mad
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Rudyard Kipling
cities mind sometimes
I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them. Will Oldham
cities enemy made
Cities are made for enemies to destroy.
cities quality orchestra
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. Zubin Mehta
cities exciting toughness
I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness. Zaha Hadid
cities safety swim
Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety? Zach Braff
cities space people
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more Sara Paretsky
cities two rivers
In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
cities rivers nymphs
The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
cities want letting-you-go
The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to. Wallace Stevens
cities joy soul
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen? William Henry Hudson
cities san-francisco know-how
The City that knows how. William Howard Taft
cities issues interesting
A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior. Will Wright