Quotes about cities
cities justice people
...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten point drop on the stock markets of some cities, is a tragedy. A person dying is not news, but if the stock markets drop ten points it is a tragedy! Thus people are disposed of, as if they were trash. Pope Francis
cities moonlight should
Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight. Nathaniel Parker Willis
cities discipline design
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. Moshe Safdie
cities space people
This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.
cities two paris
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris. Victor Hugo
cities squares house
The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them. Vicki Baum
cities solitude big-cities
in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.
cities oil people
Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places. Rita Mae Brown
cities world respecting-others
Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world. Thomas S. Monson
cities yale tuition
I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition. Robert Klein
cities liberty earth
TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty. Walt Whitman
cities liberty earth
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.
cities citizens interest
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
cities chicago protection
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. Saul Bellow
cities voice tables
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is. Rory Bremner
cities littles fargo
There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see Little Indian, Big City, I will never let you read one of my reviews again. Roger Ebert
cities together wish
If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney. Robin McKinley
cities likes rooms
He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor. Robert Scheer
cities suffering together
In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan. Sarah Vowell
cities space people
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more Sara Paretsky
cities two rivers
In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
cities rivers nymphs
The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
cities government should
Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it? Richard M. Daley
cities space people
As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we preserve these spaces while they are still available, we will have none to preserve. Richard M. Nixon
cities smarter productive
Denser cities are smarter and more productive Richard Florida
cities white snow
Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city. Roald Dahl
cities juxtaposition
Cities are about juxtaposition. Richard Rogers
cities city-planning architecture
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
cities two gambling
Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana. Richard Rodriguez
cities mexican bourgeoisie
What has happened in the last generation is that Tijuana has become a new Third World capital - much to the chagrin of Mexico City, which is more and more aware of how little it controls Tijuana politically and culturally. In addition to whorehouses and discos, Tijuana now has Korean factories and Japanese industrialists and Central American refugees, and a new Mexican bourgeoisie that takes its lessons from cable television.
cities ambitious orchestra
Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra Vanessa Carlton
cities fire gold
If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer. Vance Havner
cities paris world
Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world. Tony Visconti