Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness. — John Henry Cox Copy Share Image
Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun. — Edgerrin James Copy Share Image
As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu. — Grace Meng Copy Share Image
Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” — Noël Coward Copy Share Image
My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process. — Bill Huizenga Copy Share Image
Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party… — Eddy de Clercq Copy Share Image
We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We will implement this consent decree because we know that it is in the best interests of our city that the police… — Catherine E. Pugh Copy Share Image
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse… — Will Self Copy Share Image
New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does.… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman… — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we cut off access to certain parts of our cities to people on bikes or in wheelchairs, we're not only doing… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature. — Michiel Huisman Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it… — Phyllis George Copy Share Image
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and… — Liz Sheridan Copy Share Image
I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas. — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth. — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar… — Ellie Kemper Copy Share Image
