Quotes about cities
cities lived san
All through my twenties, I lived in very walkable cities - Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York. Elizabeth Banks
cities keen love mere permitted pilgrimage seldom travel visit
My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots. Paramahansa Yogananda
cities colour grew grown landscape lives love people river true
I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love. Arundhati Roy
cities downtown excellent green means space
We don't have as much green space in our downtown as other cities do, so that means we have to make excellent use of what we've got.
cities decades economic elite families hometown local people praise society whom
The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Timothy Noah
cities cultural deeply dynamic fantastic flock nor people replaced seductive sorts useful
I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.
cities progress valleys
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Adam Smith
cities los-angeles really-sad
Los Angeles can be a really sad city. Adam Lambert
cities decision etc
Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen. Alex Steffen
cities climate use
Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.
cities littles never-forget
I'll never forget my little city! I could talk a whole day about it! Alessandra Ambrosio
cities space people
Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation. Aleksandar Hemon
cities soul geography
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
cities house london
London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member. Alec Waugh
cities saws mexico
I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
cities humanity today
Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos. Alfred Rosenberg
cities joy los-angeles
Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown. Aldous Huxley
cities able life-is
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
cities exciting
We don't know how many teams, which cities it'd be. We just know they're going to have a WUSA, and that's the most exciting thing right now. Heather Mitts
cities chicago bigs
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. A. J. Liebling
cities towns village
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns. Abbas Kiarostami
cities emergency manage present
We present the cities with emergency declarations and let them manage things their way.
cities fan horror maybe seen
As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs. Victor LaValle
cities endemic major places points rates worse
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically. Mitch Landrieu
cities exploring league major portland terms work
Portland has more work they need to do to become a Major League city, and we have more work we're doing in terms of going to other cities and exploring those cities.
cities country eligible unusual york
New York has been unusual in being one of the only cities in the country eligible for the waiver that has not had it.
cities convince everybody goals regional talk
One of our goals was to talk to all the cities and see if we could convince everybody to do kind of a regional facility.
cities may corporations
A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities? Jane Addams
cities effort hull-house
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...
cities numbers justice
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
cities littles poor
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
cities states boycott
I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state. Jan Brewer
cities middle-east three
...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said 'we get the message.' James Woods