Quotes about cities
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 people entrepreneur
What is the city but the people? William Shakespeare
cities land shall side three
Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.
cities competing future knew position
We knew we would not be in a position of competing in the future with cities like Dallas.
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Very big established companies create a feeding ground for startups. Very few cities in the world have a critical mass of RF designers. San Diego is one of them.
cities cobblers charity
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres. Alexei Sayle
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I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well. Richard Rogers
cities skepticism built
The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism. Albert Schweitzer
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Major cities around the world have spent more than a decade or two trying to solve this problem. Some big cities still face this problem.
cities education excel places
Let's look at these 99 other places (honored) and see what kind of education they provide. What do cities that really excel in education do?
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 saint hard
It's hard to be a saint in the city. Bruce Springsteen
cities generations passionate
Michele Fiore is a fighter for her constituents who gets things done in Carson City. I can always count on Michele to be a passionate advocate for her district who will make the tough votes for our future generations instead of her next election. I hope you will join me in supporting Michele Fiore for Assembly District 4. Brian Sandoval
cities snow whole
I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace. Brian Selznick
cities diversity needs
In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity. Jane Jacobs
cities erosion attrition
Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?
cities vandalism rebuilding
But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.
cities dwelling downtown
I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.
cities diversity chaos
City diversity represents accident and chaos.
cities borders use
A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.
cities definitions way
[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.
cities people doe
In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.
cities errors design
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.
cities support income
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.
cities numbers diversity
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.
cities ideas people
All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.