The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day. — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. — Ruben Blades Copy Share Image
New York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains? — David Letterman Copy Share Image
We're leaving this Hell of a mess before long and we're going to go to our Country and our City to be… — David Berg Copy Share Image
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded,… — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
You, me, this city, this country, we will always have a choice.When you stand up to be counted, tell the world, THIS… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the… — Strabo Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
If you go to the city of Washington, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea… — David Simon Copy Share Image
If you go out to some of the big cities in California, and you look at some of the monopoly situations out… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry. — Jack Kenny Copy Share Image
Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities. — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me. — Jonah Copy Share Image
I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
“The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner… — Susan Maushart Copy Share Image
The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Food is very representative of a city's culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you've got… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled — Hammurabi Copy Share Image
A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
