Quotes about cities
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 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 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 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.
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
cities squares wish
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
cities race people
London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there. Sade Adu
cities actresses models
I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model. Saffron Burrows
cities cost natural
The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer. Ruth Graham
cities america shining
America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill. Ronald Reagan
cities world would-be
Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -Mat Robert Jordan
cities ideas numbers
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas. William Hazlitt
cities political politics
I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion. William E. Gladstone
cities government office
From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
cities goal balance
The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside. Wendell Berry
cities toronto earth
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness. Wyndham Lewis
cities paris my-favorite
I really love Paris. It's my favorite city. Wolfgang Puck
cities city-planning limits
In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed. Willis Polk
cities calm cemetery
I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery. Yehuda Amichai