Quotes about cities
cities tree alive
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. D. H. Lawrence
cities new-orleans atmosphere
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere. Constance Baker Motley
cities together london
Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted. Daniel Defoe
cities killing members
[I]n all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city. Daniel Dennett
cities hurricanes traffic
Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane. Don Kelly
cities advice pathways
So here's my advice to city planners. Make your city runnable. Runners are the first wave of troops bringing human activity back to the urban core of any city. Where we go, others will follow. The connection between runnability and livability is so clear (at least to me), that it's surprising that new developments consistently leave pathways out of the plans... Don Kardong
cities abstraction
Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction. Dylan Thomas
cities hip-hop slides
Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die Coolio
cities shopping moscow
I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world. Daniel Silva
cities shopping car
Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons. Cynthia Heimel
cities hollywood roommate
I keep a pretty low profile. I live in Culver City with some roommates. I don't do the whole 'Hollywood' thing. Cory Monteith
cities comfort convenience
By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere. E. B. White
cities isis mexico
They (#ISIS) are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico. Duncan Hunter
cities government joining
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. Anatoly Chubais
cities squares different
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me. Anatoly Karpov
cities paris opal
the pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ... Anais Nin
cities paris giving
[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
cities world letters
E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate. Anne Fadiman
cities political shapes
Each Catwoman is specific to the Gotham City she lives in and the director that helps shape her. So it's kind of hard to have a favorite and I'm not just being political, it's hard to have a favorite because each one is so specific as themselves. Anne Hathaway
cities becoming-one survivor
I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one. Christopher Plummer
cities interesting people
When I'm on the road making a movie in another city, on my day off, I always go to the movies. I love going to the movies. You get a ticket and sit there, and it's very interesting to be around people who aren't personally invested in you, in any way. They're just going to the movies Christopher Walken
cities people care
Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people who do care about each other, in good times and bad. Andrea Mitchell
cities sides seduction
Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides. Amos Bronson Alcott
cities two three
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems. Alvar Aalto
cities house opera
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
cities architecture problem
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
cities balance gone
Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier. Anne Robinson
cities voice california
I noticed whenever you call information, 411, there's always a computer voice, and they go, 'What number would you like? City and state, please.' 'Yeah, I'd like the number of Macy's in Century City, California.' 'Did you say 'pretzel nuggets'? Andy Kindler
cities rome doe
When in Rome, do as Rome does. Ambrose Bierce
cities
I've always lived in a city. Ana Gasteyer
cities edinburgh used
Edinburgh used to be a haughty city. Alexander McCall Smith
cities black crime
I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities. Alex Haley
cities numbers what-matters
It doesn't matter the numbers, it doesn't matter the records, it doesn't matter the money that you make. What matters is to raise that trophy and to be able to bring that smile to the city of St. Louis. Albert Pujols