Quotes about cities
cities world complicated
The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again. Jon McGregor
cities flying bullets
She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia had kept her head down, instead of standing up like Mouse. She’d looked out for herself, first. And because of that, she’d survived. Paolo Bacigalupi
cities people political
There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave way to bigger states. There was much more trade and travel going on than before. To people in the cities the experience of living in a small place where you knew everyone and governed your affairs by consensual democracy had been lost. Pankaj Mishra
cities heaven london
Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city Percy Bysshe Shelley
cities mexico born
I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City. Paulina Rubio
cities water soap
There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope. Mary Pope Osborne
cities bird soul
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts. Pierre Charron
cities firsts enlightening
The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family. Pope Francis
cities light shows
so id burn this whole city down just to show you the light Pete Wentz
cities president want
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want to be in the same city - forget the same stage - with President Obama. Pete Sessions
cities looks littles
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same. Pete Seeger
cities radio gigs
My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13. Questlove
cities stories violence
Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.
cities gold may
Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece. Plutarch
cities wronged
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
cities justice people
...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten point drop on the stock markets of some cities, is a tragedy. A person dying is not news, but if the stock markets drop ten points it is a tragedy! Thus people are disposed of, as if they were trash.
cities moonlight should
Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight. Nathaniel Parker Willis
cities discipline design
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. Moshe Safdie
cities space people
This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.
cities lunch numbers
What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our cities, our souls and our lunches! Elizabeth Gilbert
cities stupidity intelligence
I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction. John Bunyan
cities people utopia
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. Joel Sternfeld
cities instinct persons
I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person. Jim Sturgess
cities platforms
Cities are platforms for sharing. Lisa Gansky
cities giving chicago
Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago. Lincoln Steffens
cities village dirt
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.
cities want
I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city. Lil Wayne
cities recognition birth
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. Leon Askin
cities house turns
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. Leon Battista Alberti
cities important needs
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage. Joseph Wood Krutch
cities veils persian
I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
cities sick mind
They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
cities building should
Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway. Minoru Yamasaki