Quotes about cities
cities suburbs
A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach. Mason Cooley
cities desert caves
Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.
cities satire born
Satire is born of the cities it denounces.
cities taste fastidious
A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.
cities pavement cold
As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.
cities light rooms
He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his calculations were correct, bring light to a hundred cities and ten thousand darkened rooms. He was going to ask her to dance - that was all. Michael Chabon
cities people navy
I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city. Michael Arad
cities philadelphia rebuilding
I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them. Mick Cornett
cities community leader
The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.
cities choices succeed
If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.
cities guy used
I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature. Michiel Huisman
cities new-orleans missing
Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.
cities important world
Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an important history, including its recent history of unification. Mark Zuckerberg
cities evil growing
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun. Theodore Roosevelt
cities village today
Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin. Mahatma Gandhi
cities village process
Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.
cities today violence
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.
cities working-together half
Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.
cities people stuff
But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open. Genevieve Gorder
cities created detroit effort hurricane mistakes past poverty principle racial rebuilding recognized replicate
The hurricane really unmasked racial concentrations and poverty that are already recognized in cities like Detroit and Newark, ... One principle of the rebuilding must be an all-out effort not to replicate the mistakes of the past that created the hyper-poverty in the city.
cities form gives helping housing physical projects seek taking
The idea of helping revitalize cities with physical projects and them taking the form of housing really gives me the kind of fulfillment that I seek in my work, Henry Cisneros
cities major problem
The evacuation of major cities - we have a problem with that. We've never done that before.
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
cities hair skins
In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.
cities no-one-cares pluck
No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck. Erik Larson
cities lakes people
Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.
cities america house
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth. Eric Sevareid
cities careers baltimore
Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired. Eric Davis
cities colonels
Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders. John McPhee
cities rivers islands
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island. John Jeremiah Sullivan
cities faces citizens
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens. John Hickenlooper