Quotes about cities
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 people interesting
When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy. Steven Pinker
cities america design
Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design. Richard Moe
cities romance atmosphere
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time. Sammy Davis, Jr.
cities america states
I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
cities community soul
When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. T. S. Eliot
cities rivers house
I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.
cities feet peers
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city. Sylvia Earle
cities empathy joy
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque. Susan Sontag
cities mind together
You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things. Scott Westerfeld
cities fool
Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
cities unexpected-gifts tree
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers. Truman Capote
cities people world
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever. Toyo Ito
cities people community
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.
cities personality cups
A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles) Raymond Chandler
cities space world
Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience. Regina Spektor
cities imagination spurs
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 community growth
How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it? Rick Scott
cities paris world
Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world. Tony Visconti
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.
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 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 house athens
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. Stephen Gardiner