Quotes about cities
cities america new-orleans
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. Ruta Sepetys
cities people population
There are eleven or twelve or thirteen cities in China with populations of over 10 million people and most people in the West have never even heard of these cities. Roger Corman
cities new-orleans water
You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans. Russel Honore
cities looks bigs
When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city. Roy Oswalt
cities employee committed
I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance. Thomas Menino
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 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 toronto earth
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness. Wyndham Lewis
cities paris my-favorite
I really love Paris. It's my favorite city. Wolfgang Puck
cities city-planning limits
In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed. Willis Polk
cities calm cemetery
I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery. Yehuda Amichai
cities jerusalem eternity
Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
cities black
I like doing business in a black city. Yaphet Kotto
cities culture
A Mediterranean city is really my culture. Zinedine Zidane