Quotes about cities
cities roof seven shroud
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead,/ Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. Thomas Heywood
cities discuss early impressed process progress
Sen. Hutchison is very impressed with the progress the cities are making, but it is too early in the process to discuss an endgame.
cities hire maybe scared women won
She won the first title. She got to 100 first. Maybe GMs in other cities will see what Anne's done and they won't be ? I don't want to say scared ? but they'll want to hire women coaches. Sue Bird
cities actors village
I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I thought you would have to live in a big city, or be discovered somewhere, or be born into an artistic family, which I certainly wasn't. Diane Kruger
cities car needs
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. Dean Kamen
cities rumor knows
One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is. Eleanor Roosevelt
cities people the-end-of-the-day
[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem. Eduardo Paes
cities clouds june
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? Edward Abbey
cities wells ifs
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed. Aristotle
cities government evil
The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.
cities cobblers charity
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres. Alexei Sayle
cities design effect life living love lucky spend square talking trees window
I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well. Richard Rogers
cities skepticism built
The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism. Albert Schweitzer
cities decade face major solve spent trying
Major cities around the world have spent more than a decade or two trying to solve this problem. Some big cities still face this problem.
cities education excel places
Let's look at these 99 other places (honored) and see what kind of education they provide. What do cities that really excel in education do?
cities city condition large permanent safest york
Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of the safest large cities in America, and let's keep it that way,
cities decades economic elite families hometown local people praise society whom
The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Timothy Noah
cities cultural deeply dynamic fantastic flock nor people replaced seductive sorts useful
I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.
cities disaster far happily love moved nature people
I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. Alice Walker
cities four lived moved seven southern thousand trace typical villages
My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times. Laurence Yep
cities nuclear weapons
The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt. Dick Cheney
cities trying billboards
You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something. Banksy
cities lovely black
An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. James Keller
cities however longer technology vertical
The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl. Leon Krier
cities deep dinner guy hard intimate lonely meaningful month traveling
Traveling as much as I do, I get lonely sometimes. I have friends now in cities all over the world, so I get to be social, but it's hard to have the deep meaningful relationships, especially an intimate one. With my guy friends, I can show up once a month and go to dinner with them and they're happy. Blake Mycoskie
cities collective flourishes irrational madness man modern needs producing
Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. Gore Vidal
cities citizens planning
The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals. Le Corbusier
cities waiting house
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
cities obvious people pile qualms seemed towns useless
When the world changed, people were different. Towns closed, cities were boarded up, communities abandoned, their governments collapsed. They seemed to have no qualms that were obvious to you or me about walking away from what they called a useless pile of rubbish, and never looking back.
cities contribute enormous oppressive vast
We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm. Moshe Safdie
cities house london
London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member. Alec Waugh
cities saws mexico
I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
cities humanity today
Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos. Alfred Rosenberg