Quotes about cities
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 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 deal external interested keeps plenty protect room running separate taxes-and-taxation taxpayers ultimately year
There are plenty of cities interested in the Chargers, but ultimately you have to separate out that external noise. We have running room this year to come up with a deal that keeps the Chargers here and protect the taxpayers at the same time.
cities
There are some things cities can go after and some things they can't.
cities huge money price save shop within
The only way to save money is to shop around because even within cities there's still huge price difference, often 20 or more cents.
cities feelings guilty
there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone. Charles Bukowski
cities race stupidity
The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.
cities sick sidewalk
I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.
cities clean
When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
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 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.
cities support income
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.
cities numbers diversity
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.
cities ideas people
All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.
cities support pieces
This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.
cities giving diversity
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.
cities safe city-streets
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.