Quotes about cities
cities race earth
In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing Apollonius of Tyana
cities two baltimore
Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner! Bayard Taylor
cities world foundation
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
cities savages dangerous
The most dangerous savages live in cities.
cities firsts bigs
Nations die first in the big cities.
cities idaho rest-of-your-life
Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. Bernie Taupin
cities serve works
Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them. Rose George
cities looks process
Most unfortunately, this looks like a long-term construction process for any one of the cities affected, Tom Kennedy
cities mixed
Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities. Joseph Rykwert
cities forced good husbands looking midnight money parts people regular socialize spend wives
We have husbands and wives and regular people who come here looking to unwind, socialize and have a good time. But then, at midnight they're forced to go spend their money in other cities or other parts of the county.
cities possession streets
Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city? Brandon Sanderson
cities grandfather four
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily. Aravind Adiga
cities luxury space
Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be,
cities want three
Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on. Anthony Weiner
cities jerusalem addresses
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. Ben Nicholson
cities america groups
But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. Barbara Jordan
cities groups stories
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities. Barbara Kingsolver
cities mumbai settling
If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai. Ashwin Sanghi
cities people rivers seas skies somewhere tea work worlds
There are worlds out there where the skies are burning, where the seas asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice...and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on Ace...we've got work to do!
cities later-in-life addiction
While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail. Augusten Burroughs
cities arms sides
She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city. Ayn Rand
cities feelings guilty
there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone. Charles Bukowski
cities race stupidity
The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.
cities sick sidewalk
I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.
cities clean
When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
cities force lady ministry recruit stations women
We have requested the ministry to recruit more women for the force so that all stations in the big cities can have at least one lady officer.
cities commitment confidence eye federal folks government partner prize protecting resources restoring towns
The eye on the prize is that we get the resources we need so folks have the confidence that they can come back, and there's a long-term commitment of the federal government to be the state's partner in protecting our cities and towns from hurricanes and restoring the coast.
cities clouds june
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? Edward Abbey
cities wells ifs
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed. Aristotle
cities government evil
The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.
cities scotland next
Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us. Ed Miliband
cities might edinburgh
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles. David Nicholls
cities city condition large permanent safest york
Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of the safest large cities in America, and let's keep it that way,