Quotes about cities
cities forests sustainability
When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability. Janine Benyus
cities people culture
What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide. Brian Chesky
cities cab ifs
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs. Bret Easton Ellis
cities volunteer earth
The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth. Boris Johnson
cities mind minnesota
Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language. Bob Dylan
cities people ears
The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it. Barry Eisler
cities special great-friend
Kolkata is special. I have been privileged to spend time in the city and make some great friends there. I like to go there whenever I can. Arjun Rampal
cities space green
City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans. Bruce Babbitt
cities government people
You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city. Edwidge Danticat
cities childhood forget
But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die Elif Safak
cities paris discovery
Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries . Elie Wiesel
cities people mind
I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that. Edward Ruscha
cities desks stills
Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk. Bob Woodward
cities people transformed
Transformed people transform cities. Bill Johnson
cities snow inspire
Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city. Betty White
cities president down-and
You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace. Benjamin Netanyahu
cities people tolerance
Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop. Edward Hoagland
cities needs culture
I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere. Eddie Huang
cities paris three
I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris. Ed Bradley
cities people tree
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. Earl Warren
cities majors
There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love. Dawn Powell
cities america london
I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close. David Hockney
cities able shouting
You will never be able to defend your city while shouting. Audre Lorde
cities energy thailand
I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok. Bobby Flay
cities relaxation get-better
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. Benjamin Franklin
cities catholic mosques
I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God - much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
cities suffering moscow
Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it. Anton Chekhov
cities beast wild-beasts
The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places. Baltasar Gracian
cities giving should
A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness Clarence Stein
cities people youth
Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth. Elizabeth Hardwick
cities needs great-cities
I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center. Eli Broad
cities america museums
Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.
cities vegas las-vegas
Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops. Eli Roth