Cities Quotes · Page 27

Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that…

— Jonathon Keats

The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in…

— Paul Tillich

I love holidays in New York. I love `em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays…

— Elaine Stritch

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Heaven is the most beautiful thing God has ever made, outside of women, God bless them!-And in fact He even uses you…

— David Berg

Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live,…

— Roberto Rossellini

By stopping the flow of illegal immigration, we will save countless tax dollars, and that's so important because the tax - the…

— Donald Trump

Each Catwoman is specific to the Gotham City she lives in and the director that helps shape her. So it's kind of…

— Anne Hathaway

I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities…

— Alex Steffen

I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath…

— Mitch Albom

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

— Aldous Huxley

The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer.

— Ruth Graham

And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding…

— Milan Kundera

I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

— Anna Sui

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

Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Even in the early days of America when it was largely an agrarian or agricultural, farmer-type of economy. There were still cities;…

— Rush Limbaugh

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

— Robert A. Heinlein

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could…

— Don Marquis

After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the…

— Pope Paul VI

Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

— Edward Hoagland

In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the…

— Arundhati Roy

“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials…

— Richard Reeves