Quotes about cities
cities culture artistic
Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities. Warren Ellis
cities community want
I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress. Warren Christopher
cities lines rhyme
A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits. Vladimir Mayakovsky
cities landscape rooms
The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room. Walter Benjamin
cities names rivers
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive. William Blake
cities hiroshima-and-nagasaki doe
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. Wilfred Burchett
cities police firsts
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
cities people dying
In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.
cities want research
My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them. William Julius Wilson
cities white black
Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.
cities russia water
Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy. Winston Churchill
cities san-francisco want
Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember. Willie Brown
cities shining religion
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity. William J. Brennan
cities america rural-areas
Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas. William J. Clinton
cities community different
I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject, the interviewee - actually tend to hold steady much more consistently in rural Africa than they do in the American inner city. William Finnegan
cities way television
Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. William Gibson
cities usa community
It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective. Westbrook Pegler
cities america shining
Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship. Sarah Palin
cities usa america
I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. Sarah Bernhardt
cities people chasing
If you are a Jedi, just understand something: people are going to be chasing you. The Jedi Council of every city you enter is going to be chasing you. I've been accosted by the Jedi Council in Rio and everywhere else. Samuel L. Jackson
cities want speed
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice. Salman Rushdie
cities world culture
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
cities boston age
It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.
cities numbers telephones
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain. W. G. Sebald
cities honor sorrow
We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow. W. H. Auden
cities soul holes
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
cities six said
Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns William Dalrymple
cities majestic castles
Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic. William Cobbett
cities landscape want
I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things in new ways and how to get along in places you don't already know inside out. I want to put some life in you... Tove Jansson
cities long decay
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. Urs Fischer
cities doe walks
The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas. Ursula K. Le Guin
cities cnn devil
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages. Wally Lamb
cities facts terrorism
And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism. Vito Fossella