Quotes about cities
cities moving people water
The cities need more water for the people moving here.
cities paid pay towns train
The cities and towns have paid to train the officers. They will have to pay to train their replacements.
cities people dies
So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in. Rainer Maria Rilke
cities names mind
When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. Seamus Heaney
cities oakland justice
A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent for Oakland's youth) can hardly afford such social justice follies. But a pushover Democratic mayor and an overwhelmed police force have left what's left of gainfully employed Oakland taxpayers at the mercy of professional freeloaders and anti-capitalism saboteurs. Michelle Malkin
cities middle
I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything. Michael Urie
cities pay london
London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay. Neil Gaiman
cities firsts towns
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.
cities healthy london
Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.
cities people evening
Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor. John Norquist
cities program devalue
The highway program devalues the tax base of a city.
cities america europe
Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price.
cities fans looks
I must admit, even my fans everywhere I go in the world - just this week I was in London and Glasgow and the week before I was in Des Moines - my fans all look the same in all those cities - they look great! John Waters
cities film made
I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.
cities mountain use
American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. John Steinbeck
cities paris san-francisco
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.
cities strange countryside
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. John Sandford
cities atmosphere conservative
I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington. John Podhoretz
cities america bills
Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.
cities america people
Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000 annually. Mark Tooley
cities car traffic
None of the proposed inter-city solutions would have offered more frequent or more affordable service than existing options like bussing. Busses can also be easily re-routed around gas leaks, car accidents, or traffic congestion. Mark Noble
cities important needs
One important role for the city is to conduct studies to document areas of greatest need, and to facilitate coordination between our public and private transportation options to weave it into a dense tapestry of accessible and reliable transportation.
cities style hours
In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements. Mariella Frostrup
cities paris community
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. Marilyn Hacker
cities kansas-city together
Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and that was an amazing show. That's what I got into. I like jazz. Nick Kroll
cities desire coins
And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them? Seth Grahame-Smith
cities may stones
There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city. Sebastian Coe
cities minnesota great-cities
Minnesota's a great city. Ray Allen
cities littles used
I am starting to like LA, but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to me. I have been to many foreign cities where I didn't have do acclimatize as much as I did to LA Sloane Crosley
cities wanderers
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer. Sinclair Lewis
cities community urban
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. Socrates
cities teach
Not I, but the city teaches.
cities parent toronto
Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents. Melanie Fiona