Quotes about cities
cities sitting thrones
I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne! Veronica Roth
cities rebellion compounds
It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace".
cities mumbai may
Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city. Vikas Swarup
cities imagination quality
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. 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 way limits
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.
cities stronger would-be
When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them. Rudy Giuliani
cities extravagance poverty
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. Samuel Johnson
cities squares wish
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
cities race people
London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there. Sade Adu
cities actresses models
I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model. Saffron Burrows
cities cost natural
The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer. Ruth Graham
cities america shining
America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill. Ronald Reagan
cities world would-be
Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -Mat Robert Jordan
cities knowing champion
What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? Rocky Marciano
cities people next
Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities Robert Stephens
cities jet-planes noise
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.
cities want letting-you-go
The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to. Wallace Stevens
cities joy soul
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen? William Henry Hudson
cities san-francisco know-how
The City that knows how. William Howard Taft
cities issues interesting
A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior. Will Wright
cities culture artistic
Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities. Warren Ellis
cities community want
I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress. Warren Christopher
cities lines rhyme
A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits. Vladimir Mayakovsky
cities landscape rooms
The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room. Walter Benjamin
cities names rivers
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive. William Blake
cities people chasing
If you are a Jedi, just understand something: people are going to be chasing you. The Jedi Council of every city you enter is going to be chasing you. I've been accosted by the Jedi Council in Rio and everywhere else. Samuel L. Jackson
cities want speed
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice. Salman Rushdie
cities world culture
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
cities boston age
It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.
cities numbers telephones
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain. W. G. Sebald
cities honor sorrow
We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow. W. H. Auden
cities soul holes
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
cities six said
Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns William Dalrymple