Quotes about cities
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 house liberty
Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection. John Milton
cities boards band
You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more! Noel Gallagher
cities people challenges
I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because unfortunately people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors. Noah Baumbach
cities lasts parks
Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated. John Hench
cities forever crooks
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. John Gunther
cities people personality
For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world. John Berendt
cities division-of-labor firsts
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor. Georg Simmel
cities people born
The only city people are those born so. George Ade
cities innovation critical
The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time. Geoff Mulgan
cities doubt world
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city. Frank Lloyd Wright
cities venice looks
Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride. George Clooney
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 drug age
I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman. Just to bring yourself up or down, but to attain equilibrium you need to take certain drugs. They don't getcha high even, they just getcha normal. Lou Reed
cities stuff enjoyed
Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. Madeleine Peyroux
cities noise too-much
Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it. Lou Harrison
cities people office
A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies. John Frankenheimer
cities negotiation negotiating
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.' John F. Kennedy
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 shopping museums
Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums. Julie Gonzalo
cities circles people
The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.
cities what-matters progress
How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world. John Maeda
cities light taste
I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit. John Lee Hooker
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 way chicago
An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives. Karen Abbott