Cities Quotes
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.
Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.
San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.
With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
When I came to Mogadishu...here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.
I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.
An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.
Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.
I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.
I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.
Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.
In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing.
Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
If we’re going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can go safely everywhere.
In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
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.
Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.
We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear.
If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love.
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.
I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.
The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.
If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.
