Quotes about cities
cities compare deal difficult great list security understand
We have done a great deal to tighten up our security. It is difficult to understand why we end up on the sustainability list when you compare it to cities that are going to get funding, like Memphis.
cities raise
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
cities people constant
I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people. Joanne Harris
cities construction-workers matter
Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months. James Surowiecki
cities blood directors
Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life. James Patterson
cities people personality
For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world. John Berendt
cities division-of-labor firsts
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor. Georg Simmel
cities people born
The only city people are those born so. George Ade
cities innovation critical
The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time. Geoff Mulgan
cities doubt world
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city. Frank Lloyd Wright
cities venice looks
Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride. George Clooney
cities paris people
As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about feeling like a place acknowledged you, winked at you, accepted you. It's strange because, of all the people in all the cities, I'd have thought that to Parisians I'd be invisible, but apparently I'm not. Apparently in Paris, not only can I skate, but I practically qualify for the Olympics! Gayle Forman
cities missing chicago
I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February. Gary Cole
cities gotten location open picked sun time valley west
All of the Sun Cities in the West Valley have gotten more and more successful, so it was time to open the fourth. And the location we picked for this one is probably the most picturesque. Ed Martin
cities comedian east
It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working. Elayne Boosler
cities people solitude
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. Edward Dahlberg
cities goal tvs
I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV. Holly Madison
cities careers lakes
It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City. Hermann Maier
cities downtown able
I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was. Jordin Sparks
cities people waiting
The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to. Khaled Hosseini
cities evil way
And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good . Khalil Gibran
cities boards ongoing
You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University. Kerry Washington
cities southern borders
Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to the Canadian border, through Everett, Seattle, and Tacoma, to Olympia, the state capital, at the southern end of the sound. Jonathan Raban
cities blue manners
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.
cities community nostalgic
In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.
cities details chaos
To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.
cities people needs
We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe. Jonathan Safran Foer
cities people empowerment
We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a change in their lifestyle. Narendra Modi
cities highways
Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness. Napoleon Hill
cities favourite-city berlin
Berlin is my favourite city. Logan Lerman
cities people half
In the rush of todays world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature. Louise Leakey
cities talking trying
When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up. Loretta Lynn
cities shopping issues
Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen. Malcolm Forbes