Quotes about cities
cities numbers evil
The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London. Charles Clarke
cities new-orleans world
New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size. Billie Holiday
cities childhood forget
But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die Elif Safak
cities paris discovery
Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries . Elie Wiesel
cities people mind
I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that. Edward Ruscha
cities forced good husbands looking midnight money parts people regular socialize spend wives
We have husbands and wives and regular people who come here looking to unwind, socialize and have a good time. But then, at midnight they're forced to go spend their money in other cities or other parts of the county.
cities possession streets
Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city? Brandon Sanderson
cities grandfather four
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily. Aravind Adiga
cities luxury space
Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be,
cities want three
Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on. Anthony Weiner
cities jerusalem addresses
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. Ben Nicholson
cities america groups
But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. Barbara Jordan
cities groups stories
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities. Barbara Kingsolver
cities mumbai settling
If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai. Ashwin Sanghi
cities people rivers seas skies somewhere tea work worlds
There are worlds out there where the skies are burning, where the seas asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice...and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on Ace...we've got work to do!
cities race earth
In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing Apollonius of Tyana
cities two baltimore
Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner! Bayard Taylor
cities world foundation
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
cities savages dangerous
The most dangerous savages live in cities.
cities firsts bigs
Nations die first in the big cities.
cities idaho rest-of-your-life
Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. Bernie Taupin
cities saint hard
It's hard to be a saint in the city. Bruce Springsteen
cities generations passionate
Michele Fiore is a fighter for her constituents who gets things done in Carson City. I can always count on Michele to be a passionate advocate for her district who will make the tough votes for our future generations instead of her next election. I hope you will join me in supporting Michele Fiore for Assembly District 4. Brian Sandoval
cities snow whole
I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace. Brian Selznick
cities diversity needs
In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity. Jane Jacobs
cities erosion attrition
Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?
cities vandalism rebuilding
But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.
cities dwelling downtown
I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.
cities diversity chaos
City diversity represents accident and chaos.
cities borders use
A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.
cities definitions way
[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.
cities people doe
In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.
cities errors design
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.