From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just…

— Donald Trump

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.

— Rem Koolhaas

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's…

— Ludivine Sagnier

Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive…

— W. H. Auden

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the…

— Ayn Rand

If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with…

— Joseph Rykwert

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

— E. M. Forster

Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting,…

— Gretchen Rubin

While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of…

— Bruce Sterling

In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums,…

— Brendan Gill

It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles…

— Mark Twain