Quotes about cities
cities majestic castles
Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic. William Cobbett
cities landscape want
I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things in new ways and how to get along in places you don't already know inside out. I want to put some life in you... Tove Jansson
cities long decay
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. Urs Fischer
cities doe walks
The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas. Ursula K. Le Guin
cities hiroshima-and-nagasaki doe
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. Wilfred Burchett
cities police firsts
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
cities people dying
In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.
cities soul listening
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music. Stefon Harris
cities alive amsterdam
I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.
cities bagels fit
I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe? Or maybe just the gym will be enough. Sophie Kinsella
cities shopping california
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway. Thomas Pynchon
cities fame seven
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. Thomas Heywood
cities want firsts
It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me. Vince Carter
cities competition needs
Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world. Victor Pinchuk
cities careers people
It's amazing, especially coming from the small city of Paterson, to have all of those people just being behind you and supporting your career and understanding where you come from. Victor Cruz
cities violence crime
In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time,
cities water sewers
The sewer is the conscience of the city. Victor Hugo
cities wife fool
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough to stay in the city. S. J. Perelman
cities online shops
I shop all the time, basically every day, whether it's online or in every city we go to. Russell Westbrook
cities race racing
I love street races; theres something about racing in the middle of a city. Romain Grosjean
cities baghdad regimes
How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change? Susan Sarandon
cities found
In the looking, I found the cities within me. Suketu Mehta
cities balance wildlife
I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail. Studs Terkel
cities chicago city-of-chicago
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
cities feelings enjoyable
If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it. Stone Gossard
cities rights black
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. Stokely Carmichael
cities invisible ifs
I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible. Storm Jameson
cities humanity unemployment
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that. Stewart Brand
cities wronged
That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers. Solon
cities veils persian
I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
cities sick mind
They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
cities building should
Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway. Minoru Yamasaki
cities water hart
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. Philip Gilbert Hamerton