Cities famous quotes

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Expression #Cities #Imagination

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.
-- A. E. Hotchner

#New York #Cities #Being There

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
-- A. J. Liebling

#Cities #Chicago #Big Cities

It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.
-- A.C. Grayling

#Atheist #Cities #Faces

Chris [Nolan] comes at this with such a different take on Batman, so I didn't feel that I had to be true to any other actor playing this role. Of course, I read the comic books. His relationships with Lt. Gordon and with Batman, with Gotham City, those really helped me the most.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Book #Cities #Different

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 #Village #Towns

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
-- Abigail Breslin

#New York #Cities #Would Be

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
-- Abraham Cowley

#Men #Cities #World

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
-- Abraham Cowley

#Garden #Cities #Firsts

The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Dream #Past #Cities

Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#New York #Blow #Cities

I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.
-- Adam Driver

#Cities #Want #Theater

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
-- Adam Smith

#Cities #Valleys #Economy

Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.
-- Adam Zagajewski

#Stars #Cities #Names

It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.
-- Addison Mizner

#Simple #Florida #Cities

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 #Skins #Needs

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
-- Adolf Hitler

#War #Bridges #Cities

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
-- Adolf Loos

#Cities #Wish #Vienna

What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Hope #Mean #Cities

The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
-- Aesop Rock

#Bridges #Cities #Legacy

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
-- Agatha Christie

#New York #Writing #Cities

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella

#Son #Cities #Age

Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
-- Ai Weiwei

#Cities #Nightmare #Beijing

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
-- Ai Weiwei

#Cities #Design #Competition

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods.
-- Aidan Quinn

#Cities #Guy #Woods

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.
-- Aidan Quinn

#Jobs #Cities #Guy

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.
-- Al Seckel

#Weekend #Cities #California

People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
-- Al Sharpton

#Thinking #Cities #Two

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
-- Al Sharpton

#Country #Cities #Groups

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
-- Al Sharpton

#New York #Cities #Police

A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.
-- Al-Farabi

#Hate #Cities #Giving

In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Cities #People #House

If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.
-- Alaina Huffman

#Cities #Fans #Television

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.
-- Alan Autry

#Cities #Community #Foundation

I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.
-- Alan Autry

#Men #Cities #Safety

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley,
-- Alan Autry

#Cities #Valleys #Matter

Fresno is an All America city and deserves real, honest, strong leadership and I pledge to the people of Fresno to be that kind of leader.
-- Alan Autry

#Strong #Real #Cities

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.
-- Alan Autry

#Cities #Perception #Momentum

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.
-- Alan Bean

#Cities #Space

Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
-- Alan Bold

#Cities #Edinburgh #Tales

I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
-- Alan Chambers

#Gay #Rights #Cities

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
-- Alan Dundes

#Moving #Cities #People

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
-- Alan Garner

#Cities #Crowds #Biomass

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.
-- Alan Hansen

#Cities #Doldrums

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?
-- Alan Moore

#Cities #Dying #Foam

A win tonight is the minimum City must achieve
-- Alan Parry

#Soccer #Winning #Cities

In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.
-- Alan Weisman

#Real #Fall #Cities

Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.
-- Alastair Reynolds

#Cities #Orbit #Habitat

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
-- Alastair Reynolds

#Cities #Hot #Meals

Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?
-- Albert Allen Bartlett

#Thinking #Cities #People

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
-- Albert Camus

#Life #Mean #Cities

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.
-- Albert Camus

#Distance #Order #Cities

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
-- Albert Camus

#Dirty #Cities #Paris

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Cities #Skepticism

In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them (did not) weaken the morale of the populace.
-- Albert Speer

#War #Impact #Cities

Fighting men are the city's fortress
-- Alcaeus

#Fighting #Men #Cities

Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.
-- Alcaeus

#Men #Cities #Brave

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city
-- Aldo Rossi

#Cities #Architecture #Study

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.
-- Aldo Rossi

#Memories #Cities #People

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Cities #Able #Life Is

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Urbanization #Cities #Certain

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Cities #Joy #Los Angeles

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign,
-- Alec Baldwin

#New York #Cities #Stupidity

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.
-- Alec Waugh

#Cities #House #London

And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky

#Escaping #Cities #Rivers

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Cities #Soul #Geography

At the last minute, from what I can gather, either Emmanuel Adebayor or his agent phoned us after they had agreed a deal with City and then did the same with Chelsea. He was desperate to get to either Chelsea or us.
-- Alex Ferguson

#Inspirational #Cities #Emmanuel

There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.
-- Alex Ferguson

#Inspirational #Winning #Cities

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.
-- Alex Flinn

#New York #Cities #Fairy Tale

And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.
-- Alex Jones

#Media #Cities #Majority

When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California.
-- Alex Prager

#Cities #California #Trying

I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.
-- Alex Rodriguez

#New York #Thinking #Cities

Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.
-- Alex Shakar

#Beautiful #Running #Cities

Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.
-- Alex Steffen

#Moving #Cities #Feet

To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.
-- Alex Steffen

#Creativity #Cities #Innovation

For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.
-- Alex Steffen

#Talking #Cities #Impact

Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait for politics to catch up before they improve their neighborhoods. This weathervane book deserves a place on any urbanist's bookshelf.
-- Alex Steffen

#Book #Cities #People

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.
-- Alex Steffen

#Cities #Energy #Climate

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.
-- Alex Steffen

#Block #Government #Cities

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 #Decision #Energy

One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA
-- Alexander Graham Bell

#Cities #Usa #One Day

One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

#Cities #America #One Day

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

#Cities #Genius #Impossible

I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.
-- Alexander Ovechkin

#Hockey #Cities #Looks

Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?""Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered sweetly over her shoulder, "but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it.
-- Alexander Woollcott

#War #Sight #Cities

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
-- Alexander Woollcott

#Cities #Causes #Chicago

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
-- Alexander Woollcott

#Cities #Los Angeles #Seven

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Years #Cities #House

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

#Cities #Cobblers #Charity

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise...
-- Alexis Carrel

#Dark #Dust #Cities

Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.
-- Alfred Austin

#Flower #Simple #Cities

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man...
-- Alfred de Musset

#Men #Cities #Suffering

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
-- Alfred Doblin

#Home #Men #Cities

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Music #Cities #Piano

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 #Humanity #Today

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.
-- Alice Cooper

#New York #Cities #People

I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.
-- Alison Croggon

#Cities #Complaining #Tedium

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
-- Alison Gopnik

#Cities #Towns #Visitors

Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families scatter in pursuit of jobs and professions everywhere. In a world of wheels, old and comfortable groupings of people have disappeared.
-- Allan Fromme

#Jobs #Loneliness #Cities

If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be - community-building places, attractive for all people - then we will have successfully designed about one-third of the city directly and will have had an immense impact on the rest.
-- Allan Jacobs

#Impact #Cities #People