Quotes about cities
cities climate use
Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future. Alex Steffen
cities littles never-forget
I'll never forget my little city! I could talk a whole day about it! Alessandra Ambrosio
cities space people
Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation. Aleksandar Hemon
cities soul geography
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
cities house london
London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member. Alec Waugh
cities saws mexico
I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
cities humanity today
Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos. Alfred Rosenberg
cities joy los-angeles
Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown. Aldous Huxley
cities able life-is
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
cities venice genius
To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius. Alexander Herzen
cities usa one-day
One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA Alexander Graham Bell
cities wish vienna
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself. Adolf Loos
cities skins months
I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin. Adelaide Clemens
cities deep dinner guy hard intimate lonely meaningful month traveling
Traveling as much as I do, I get lonely sometimes. I have friends now in cities all over the world, so I get to be social, but it's hard to have the deep meaningful relationships, especially an intimate one. With my guy friends, I can show up once a month and go to dinner with them and they're happy. Blake Mycoskie
cities information parts policy reviewed time
There are parts of that policy that haven't been reviewed for many, many years. It's time we take a look at what other cities are doing, see what information we can find and see what parts of our policy are outdated. Mark Johnson
cities generic means principles relying scientific statement theory underlying
My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest. Geoffrey West
cities confronted energy finance global health impact origins problems
Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from.
cities causes chicago
Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. Alexander Woollcott
cities los-angeles seven
Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
cities exciting
We don't know how many teams, which cities it'd be. We just know they're going to have a WUSA, and that's the most exciting thing right now. Heather Mitts
cities colour grew grown landscape lives love people river true
I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love. Arundhati Roy
cities demon growing society stalking strength stress striking
Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily. Srikumar Rao
cities dwell heard marches paint rhythms songs
I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. Olivier Messiaen
cities four lived moved seven southern thousand trace typical villages
My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times. Laurence Yep
cities nuclear weapons
The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt. Dick Cheney
cities trying billboards
You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something. Banksy
cities lovely black
An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. James Keller
cities however longer technology vertical
The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl. Leon Krier
cities next unexpected
I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets. Anna Sui
cities people done
People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city. Andy Goldsworthy
cities people pavement
People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
cities crumbling-infrastructure serious
Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something. Andrew Natsios
cities league four
Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for. Allen Tate