Quotes about cities
cities citizens forget
The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel. Carlos Fuentes
cities direct include interest mean plan strategic
We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't mean we won't in the future.
cities community quality
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. Agnes Repplier
cities tombs tale-of-two-cities
Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques. Charles Dickens
cities mind vision
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
cities mind moral
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals. Charles Caleb Colton
cities literature village
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
cities discipline suffering
The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences. Charles Stanley
cities force lady ministry recruit stations women
We have requested the ministry to recruit more women for the force so that all stations in the big cities can have at least one lady officer.
cities commitment confidence eye federal folks government partner prize protecting resources restoring towns
The eye on the prize is that we get the resources we need so folks have the confidence that they can come back, and there's a long-term commitment of the federal government to be the state's partner in protecting our cities and towns from hurricanes and restoring the coast.
cities people culture
What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide. Brian Chesky
cities cab ifs
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs. Bret Easton Ellis
cities companies create critical diego feeding few ground mass san
Very big established companies create a feeding ground for startups. Very few cities in the world have a critical mass of RF designers. San Diego is one of them.
cities
There are so many cities in every single city. David Mitchell
cities needs melancholy
Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. David Guterson
cities car miami
Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash. Dave Barry
cities america ruins
It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. Buenaventura Durruti
cities names world
I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur. Bryan Adams
cities design trying
I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens. Cesar Pelli
cities knowing listening
... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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 dying wipe
This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips? Alan Moore
cities london england
London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.
cities doldrums has-beens
Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again. Alan Hansen