Quotes about cities
cities wings quality
In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City") Peter Straub
cities years rumor
A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear. Peter L. Berger
cities half lasts
In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so. Peter Bergen
cities people los-angeles
I become friends with people in each city who can show me around. Like if someone came to Los Angeles they wouldn't really know where to go, so they'd have to call me up and then I'd show them around. Pauly Shore
cities voice century
Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city. Pete Hamill
cities gone ambassadors
Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor. Rachel Cohn
cities palimpsest site
The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten. Teju Cole
cities labs faces
The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to. Randall Munroe
cities trifles magnifying
Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. Ralph Waldo Emerson
cities people growth
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
cities riding stories
I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things. Scarlett Johansson
cities minorities civil-rights
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry. Shirley Chisholm
cities giving desire
There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need. Shelley Berkley
cities age building
The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city. Lewis Mumford
cities car lovers
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
cities long fads
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
cities san-francisco world
I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.
cities gold spurs
The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold. Neil Peart
cities house buying
You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house. Vanessa Paradis
cities estates aspect
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate. V. S. Naipaul
cities pages naples
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid. Stacy Schiff
cities done opponents
Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters. Marc Morial
cities people care
You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another. Marc Guggenheim
cities want littles
I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again. Siddhartha Mukherjee
cities people stories
There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasnt even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic. Shane Warne
cities noble looks
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case Tony Abbott
cities different tourists
Traveling for modeling has been great, but I never really have much time to live the tourist life while in all the different cities. Rila Fukushima
cities mind sun
There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with no one to meet, no duties, no obligations. I had nothing to do and a thousand nameless, sun-drenched streets to do it in. Steven Saylor
cities ideas genius
Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect. Tom Hodgkinson
cities people black
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. Toni Morrison
cities numbers giving
Beginning Beloved with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.
cities arena trials
A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena. Tom C. Clark
cities london culture
It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer. Toby Jones