Cities Quotes · Page 53

The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and…

— Robert Moss

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

— Christopher Rice

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

— Bertrand Delanoe

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

— Joe Meno

I work while I'm on the move, so I'm able to book sessions in different cities.

— Brent Faiyaz

When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness…

— Protagoras

Sometimes bigger cities, just because there's so much going on, people are a little more jaded.

— Hutch Harris

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

— Gary Hustwit

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I…

— George Brandis

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins.…

— Mohsin Hamid

I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced…

— Studs Terkel

I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because…

— Lou Piniella

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart…

— V S Naipaul

When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the…

— Jean-Pascal Tricoire

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are…

— Eleanor Lerman

The EPA's [Clean Power Plan] is another example of Washington's lack of understanding when it comes to rural and Western energy issues.…

— Ann Kirkpatrick

“There are many who say ‘I believe this,’ but would they hold true to those beliefs if their children were threatened? No.…

— Conn Iggulden

I stand by this man (President George W. Bush). I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for…

— Stephen Colbert

What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of…

— Keith Olbermann

People have these perceptions; maybe they've been here for a day, or have only heard about it. It was like when I…

— Masai Ujiri

In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

I wouldn't necessarily assume that because Capricornia has traditionally been a Labor seat, that it'll go back to the Labor Party this…

— George Brandis

I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok.

— Bobby Flay

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

— Robert Smithson

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

— Doris Lessing

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

— Yani Tseng

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and…

— Paulo Coelho

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

— Elif Safak

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

— Vicki Baum

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

— Stewart Brand

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

— Daniel Libeskind

Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.

— Walker Percy

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

— Bruce Babbitt

Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past…

— Leonard Cohen

It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!

— Margot Robbie

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

— Toyo Ito

Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.

— Rose George

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

— John Cale