Quotes about cities
cities facts architecture
The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time. Bertrand Delanoe
cities balance needs
We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families. Carolyn Maloney
cities revolution ready
Are you hep to what the Beatles are saying?... Dig it, they’re telling it like it is. They know what’s happening in the city; blackie is getting ready. They put the revolution to music... it’s 'Helter-Skelter.' Helter-Skelter is coming down. Charles Manson
cities limits purpose
Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose. Charles Fourier
cities new-orleans water
Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana. Billy Tauzin
cities games eras
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. Bill Toomey
cities shoes california
Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100. Bitsie Tulloch
cities population three
Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide. Bob Filner
cities convince good results seeing
We are already seeing such good results that I think this will convince other cities to take a look at this.
cities consider install setting video
Usually cities do it in the reverse. They install the video surveillance first and then they consider setting up policies.
cities people entrepreneur
What is the city but the people? William Shakespeare
cities land shall side three
Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.
cities competing future knew position
We knew we would not be in a position of competing in the future with cities like Dallas.
cities guy woods
I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. Aidan Quinn
cities design competition
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture. Ai Weiwei
cities incomplete offers
A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.
cities nightmare beijing
Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
cities desks stills
Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk. Bob Woodward
cities people transformed
Transformed people transform cities. Bill Johnson
cities hit release road smaller
We are going to hit the smaller cities on road after the release of the new album. Lars Ulrich
cities may corporations
A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities? Jane Addams
cities effort hull-house
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...
cities numbers justice
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
cities littles poor
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
cities states boycott
I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state. Jan Brewer
cities middle-east three
...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said 'we get the message.' James Woods
cities people colorado
I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.' Jason Behr
cities towns decline
While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline. Jasmine Guinness
cities forests sustainability
When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability. Janine Benyus
cities coast deals east european hotel low major march november seen travel
We've seen airfares as low as $179 each way from the East Coast to major European cities for travel between November 1 and March 31, and many hotel deals to match.
cities paris care
Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty. Carl Van Vechten
cities crowds biomass
I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me. Alan Garner
cities people house
In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city. Al-Waleed bin Talal