Quotes about cities
cities catholic mosques
I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God - much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
cities suffering moscow
Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it. Anton Chekhov
cities beast wild-beasts
The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places. Baltasar Gracian
cities mind minnesota
Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language. Bob Dylan
cities people ears
The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it. Barry Eisler
cities special great-friend
Kolkata is special. I have been privileged to spend time in the city and make some great friends there. I like to go there whenever I can. Arjun Rampal
cities space green
City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans. Bruce Babbitt
cities government people
You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city. Edwidge Danticat
cities president locks
When I become president, all you assholes that ride bikes in the city? Lock and load! You're going down! Denis Leary
cities heaven empires
The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city. Deborah Kerr
cities light car
Cars are all jammed up all along the road and a light turns red and someone honks. In every one of those cars there is a story or a hundred stories. For every light on in al of those huge city buildings there is a story. No one knows what I am about to face and no one knows my story and neither do I right then. Deb Caletti
cities opinion overrated
Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican. Ed Stoppard
cities proud detroit
When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit. Ed Koch
cities missing littles
When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you. Eliza Coupe
cities energy thailand
I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok. Bobby Flay
cities relaxation get-better
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. Benjamin Franklin
cities later-in-life addiction
While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail. Augusten Burroughs
cities arms sides
She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city. Ayn Rand
cities london nations
London; a nation, not a city. Benjamin Disraeli
cities wonderful manchester
Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.
cities giving should
A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness Clarence Stein
cities people youth
Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth. Elizabeth Hardwick
cities needs great-cities
I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center. Eli Broad
cities america museums
Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.
cities vegas las-vegas
Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops. Eli Roth
cities organization people
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city. Arthur Keith
cities contribute enormous oppressive vast
We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm. Moshe Safdie
cities countries dress founded helped million success transition welfare women work
When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work. Nancy Lublin
cities lived san
All through my twenties, I lived in very walkable cities - Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York. Elizabeth Banks
cities keen love mere permitted pilgrimage seldom travel visit
My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots. Paramahansa Yogananda
cities emergency manage present
We present the cities with emergency declarations and let them manage things their way.
cities fan horror maybe seen
As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs. Victor LaValle
cities decision etc
Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen. Alex Steffen