Cities Quotes
Cities Quote of the day
While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!
And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city on earth but to the heavenly Jerusalem.
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.
A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves.
A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.
Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.
I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.
This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.
Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
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.
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.
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.
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.
All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.
No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.
It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.