Quotes about cities
cities tree parks
Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities. Gavin Newsom
cities san-francisco government
As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy
cities san-francisco space
San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
cities festivals documentary-films
We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico. Gael Garcia Bernal
cities islands hawaii
I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city. Maggie Q
cities waiting nausea
One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago. Norman Mailer
cities people want
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. Orhan Pamuk
cities long trying
The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish. Olivia De Havilland
cities chicago comfort
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. Oliver Wendell Holmes
cities axes earth
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
cities trajectory
Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory. Olafur Eliasson
cities people culture
With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture. Olga Kurylenko
cities magic literature
Nature is a petrified magic city. Novalis
cities attention lasts
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all. Norton Juster
cities minorities faces
I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other. Ellen Goodman
cities age united-states
To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. Eric Alterman
cities brotherhood beloved
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other. Epictetus
cities humans security
Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city. Epicurus
cities tradition
I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city. Emeril Lagasse
cities people faces
I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear. Elliott Smith
cities graves
Even cities have their graves! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
cities tolerance towns
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.
cities race humans
Cities are the sinks of the human race. Henri Rousseau
cities water purpose
An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. Hernando Cortes
cities solitude great-cities
A great city is a great solitude. Hermione Gingold
cities clubs may
At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city, Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made, They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,) A music club and music warehouse pretty. Heinrich Heine
cities-in-the-world cities world
All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me. Henry Williamson
cities people victory
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents. Henry Walter Bates
cities rivers shining
There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows. Henry Ward Beecher
cities texas earth
I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth. JoBeth Williams
cities boxing body
I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities. Joe Frazier
cities world gang
Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts. Jimi Hendrix
cities doors kind
Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves. Jim Morrison