Quotes about cities
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 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 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 facts terrorism
And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism. Vito Fossella
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 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
cities sacred firsts
The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground. Tina Fey
cities decay way
Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesnt come any more marked than here. Tibor Fischer
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