Cities Quotes

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.

That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

You have been the last dream of my soul.

I have always thought, "If the city cannot come to the country, then the country must come to the city."

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.

Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

Market forces do not make cities, they destroy them

This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

I'll just say this. There was no way we were going to lose at home on this day in this in this city for all those people.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned

Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

Hong Kong and Macau are both very dynamic cities. I am always inspired about the culture, people and food in these two cities. There is always so much to do and so much to explore!

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, “You’re not the one.” We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us.

Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down.

I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness...whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?

The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer.

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

The sewer is the conscience of the city.

Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military and economic.

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

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.

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.