Cities Quotes
The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families.
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.
I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.
Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.
I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.
It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky.
Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.
Hell is a real place, more real than the city in which you live, much hotter and more populated.
And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.
Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.
Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.
The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.
The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.
O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?
Chicago is known as the Windy City, and Montana is called the Big Sky State, so I think that we should somehow combine the two to create the ultimate kite-flying experience.
I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.
In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German.
Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.
We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word “home.”
Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.
When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.
Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.
It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world
We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins
Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?