Quotes about cities
cities people challenges
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in. Philip Johnson
cities houston building
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
cities citizens lines
In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves. Peter DeFazio
cities organization community
human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city. Peter Drucker
cities great-day want
Exeter City's trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it - they won't get the result they want against Manchester United. Mark Lawrenson
cities white people
A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it. Mario Cuomo
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 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 israel mind
In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace. Theodore Bikel
cities littles arabia
I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city. Themistocles
cities long way
Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty... Terry Jones
cities los-angeles my-favorite
I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, but I probably wouldn't say it's my favorite city. Terry O'Quinn
cities tyrants age
Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari. Terry Pratchett
cities weakness wells
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses. Margaret Mead
cities childhood way
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
cities canada looks
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
cities america crime
We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high. Michael Bloomberg
cities government president
If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.
cities world would-be
You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.
cities leads map shows structure territory worse wrong
If the map shows a different structure from the territory represented -- for instance, shows the cities in a wrong order. . . . then the map is worse than useless, as it misinforms and leads astray. Alfred Korzybski
cities themselves
Cities will themselves to be great. It's an underappreciated factor.
cities controls five ignored millions pollution shock spent storm
Cities were monitoring more and going into shock over what pollution had been ignored for years if not decades. Now we have spent hundreds of millions for new sewers and storm outflow controls and things are dramatically better than they were five years ago.