Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house… — Frederick Stanley Maude Copy Share Image
The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Luxembourg was and still is today a crossroads, the place where Germany meets the rest of Europe. The country lost part of… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
To view space as, "Well, let's go to Mars now," or "Let's do this now," maybe we should rethink of space as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I love New York... I think it's the best city in the world. As far as cities go, everything's there. I think… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
I'm originally from a town called Ipswich. I currently live in Newburyport. It's a port city, so I'm right on a river.… — Melissa Ferrick Copy Share Image
There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together,… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder… — Eric Wolf Copy Share Image
I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who'… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
If there's a group like Amish people, that want to live their own lifestyle – they don't want to live in our… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
