Cities Quotes
I think different designers have different points of view and different strong personalities can influence the way certain cities are perceived.
Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .
What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.
Zuckerberg wants to take us back to the dorm room where we all know each other. I don't want to, I want to go to the city.
Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations.
If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.
I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.
In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.
To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to us, it becomes a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour….
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
Sanctuary cities are a lot like hitchhiking. And the abstract, it feels really good until you feel dead.
I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.
What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.
And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.
I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.
I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.
Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.
It was announced that President Obama and his wife, when they're finished in Washington, are moving to New York City. The guy just can't get enough gridlock.
I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.
Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.
Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.
You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives.
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
The practical answer is, no it would be totally impossible for young or foreign people to get access to roof of a building that stands in the heart of a giant city and to put a cable across.
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.
I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you talk about My Istanbul is a sunny place.