Quotes about cities
cities roof seven shroud
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead,/ Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. Thomas Heywood
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Sen. Hutchison is very impressed with the progress the cities are making, but it is too early in the process to discuss an endgame.
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She won the first title. She got to 100 first. Maybe GMs in other cities will see what Anne's done and they won't be ? I don't want to say scared ? but they'll want to hire women coaches. Sue Bird
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I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. Alice Walker
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Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. Gore Vidal
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The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals. Le Corbusier
cities waiting house
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
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My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times. Laurence Yep
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The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt. Dick Cheney
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something. Banksy
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An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. James Keller
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The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl. Leon Krier
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Traveling as much as I do, I get lonely sometimes. I have friends now in cities all over the world, so I get to be social, but it's hard to have the deep meaningful relationships, especially an intimate one. With my guy friends, I can show up once a month and go to dinner with them and they're happy. Blake Mycoskie
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There are parts of that policy that haven't been reviewed for many, many years. It's time we take a look at what other cities are doing, see what information we can find and see what parts of our policy are outdated. Mark Johnson
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Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily. Srikumar Rao
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I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. Olivier Messiaen
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My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest. Geoffrey West
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Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from.
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Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. Alexander Woollcott
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Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
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To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius. Alexander Herzen
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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA Alexander Graham Bell
cities wish vienna
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself. Adolf Loos
cities skins months
I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin. Adelaide Clemens
cities next unexpected
I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets. Anna Sui
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People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city. Andy Goldsworthy
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something. Andrew Natsios
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Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for. Allen Tate
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On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city. Alison Gopnik
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When the world changed, people were different. Towns closed, cities were boarded up, communities abandoned, their governments collapsed. They seemed to have no qualms that were obvious to you or me about walking away from what they called a useless pile of rubbish, and never looking back.
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We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm. Moshe Safdie
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work. Nancy Lublin