What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Fighting in cities is a totally different endeavor than obviously fighting out in the open. — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as… — Ernest Rhys Copy Share Image
We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass… — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics,… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be… — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell… — Steffi Graf Copy Share Image
Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There's a mindset in other countries that if you're an American, you're a Christian. Well, those people are sadly misled; they don't… — Tim Conway Copy Share Image
I always sort of talk about - to myself at least, or to my friends, about wanting to just keep life very… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center, — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach. — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest. — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
After watching Watford against Manchester City last night that was like a bubblebath. It was beautiful. — Eamon Copy Share Image
There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out… — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city. — Plato Copy Share Image
The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I probably get it trimmed once every two months or so. I've just been going to the salon in the city, and… — Noah Syndergaard Copy Share Image
A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by… — Charles Abrams Copy Share Image
Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
The attacks on our police and the terrorism of our cities threaten our very way of life. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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