Cities Quotes · Page 89

The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of…

— Orson F. Whitney

The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject…

— Ben Fountain

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities,…

— Lincoln Steffens

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it…

— Mary Schmich

People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city,…

— J. G. Ballard

People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want…

— Alan Shearer

“I found Baghdad, like most big cities in the world: big, exciting, interesting, rich, poor, hot, cold, restless, sleepless, and cruel at…

— Louis Yako

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for…

— Robert Frost

It was if the city knew about Percy's dream of Gaea. It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human…

— Rick Riordan

This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to…

— Lauren Oliver

We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

— Italo Calvino

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City.…

— Eliot Spitzer

If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a…

— Chris Messina

Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town…

— L. Welch Pogue

And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that…

— Bernal Diaz del Castillo

In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that…

— John Dykstra

Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab…

— Anna Quindlen

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating…

— Charles Stanley

He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out…

— Woody Allen

The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do.…

— Robert Farrar Capon

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

— Sonia Rykiel

I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event…

— Ai Weiwei

Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of…

— Eric Hoffer

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change…

— David Harvey

LA isn’t a walking city, or a subway city, so if someone isn’t in my house or my car we’ll never be…

— Miranda July

“Overcrowding, which is one symptom of the population instability, continues. It continues, not because the overcrowded people remain, but because they leave.…

— Jane Jacobs

In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin…

— Mona Simpson

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

— Mark Cuban

Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of…

— Chris Hadfield

There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander…

— Jan Morris

Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only…

— Samantha Power

If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be…

— Albion Fellows Bacon

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

— Tadao Ando

I work while I'm on the move, so I'm able to book sessions in different cities.

— Brent Faiyaz

There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the…

— Kate Morton

Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community.

— Joe Biden

The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New…

— Jon Stewart

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.

— Joseph Straus

Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which…

— Ernest Bramah