Quotes about cities
cities problem solutions
The city is not the problem; the city is the solution, Jaime Lerner
cities problem solutions
Cities are not problems. They are solutions.
cities together function
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
cities space giving
Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.
cities secret leisure
The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.
cities australia trying
I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too! Jackie Collins
cities people able
I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing. Jack White
cities two numbers
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats. James G. Frazer
cities lovely world
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one. Isaac Hanson
cities want builder
I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be. Isaac Marion
cities cherish living-in-the-city
For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the countryside. Jeremy Irvine
cities growing ruins
Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing. Jeffrey Eugenides
cities chicago scene
Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene. Jesse Spencer
cities mad together
Not completely, but neither of us gets mad when the other doesn't text back or call. Life's super-busy. Obviously you know what they're doing, and you trust them. We're so young that it would almost be like if we lived in the same city, what would happen? We'd be living together. At least this way he's in the same boat as I am: We can go out and have our own lives and know that we have each other. Jennifer Lawrence
cities agency people
In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. James Buchan
cities people population
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.
cities conquer horsemen
Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize. James A. Michener
cities san-francisco political
The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.
cities toronto
I love Toronto, It's the best city. Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
cities interesting would-be
Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous. Frank Norris
cities towns small-town
Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown. Francois Rabelais
cities like-family feels
Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love. Chris Noth
cities oklahoma-city television
I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for. Chris Harrison
cities philadelphia house
I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed. Frances Wright
cities london places-you-go
London: A place you go to get bronchitis. Fran Lebowitz
cities beverly-hills los-angeles
Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
cities large-cities
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. George Washington
cities violence sometimes
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.
cities mind renaissance
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. George Santayana
cities arches world
Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected. Jeanette Winterson
cities kansas-city new-orleans
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style. Jelly Roll Morton
cities despair answers
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again. Gary Shteyngart
cities people personality
I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile. Fred Armisen