Quotes about cities
cities guy siege
So why are we practicing this, anyway?" Percy asked. "Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities? Rick Riordan
cities films general popular smaller willing
The general public, which usually prefers big blockbusters, is now willing to give smaller films a chance. They are not only popular in big cities anymore.
cities people solitude
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. Edward Dahlberg
cities goal tvs
I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV. Holly Madison
cities neglect peril
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. John F. Kennedy
cities people earth
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination. Jonathan Carroll
cities ideas mind
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas. Jonah Lehrer
cities world complicated
The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again. Jon McGregor
cities san-francisco fog
I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs. Julie Christie
cities half barcelona
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs. Julie Burchill
cities feet tree
When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty. Renzo Piano
cities july republic
I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. Ruben Blades
cities unexpected-gifts tree
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers. Truman Capote
cities people world
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever. Toyo Ito
cities people community
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.
cities personality cups
A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles) Raymond Chandler
cities space world
Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience. Regina Spektor
cities imagination spurs
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. Rebecca Solnit
cities community growth
How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it? Rick Scott
cities flying bullets
She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia had kept her head down, instead of standing up like Mouse. She’d looked out for herself, first. And because of that, she’d survived. Paolo Bacigalupi
cities people political
There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave way to bigger states. There was much more trade and travel going on than before. To people in the cities the experience of living in a small place where you knew everyone and governed your affairs by consensual democracy had been lost. Pankaj Mishra
cities heaven london
Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city Percy Bysshe Shelley
cities mexico born
I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City. Paulina Rubio
cities water soap
There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope. Mary Pope Osborne
cities bird soul
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts. Pierre Charron
cities firsts enlightening
The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family. Pope Francis
cities light shows
so id burn this whole city down just to show you the light Pete Wentz
cities president want
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want to be in the same city - forget the same stage - with President Obama. Pete Sessions
cities looks littles
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same. Pete Seeger
cities radio gigs
My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13. Questlove
cities stories violence
Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.
cities gold may
Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece. Plutarch
cities wronged
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.