I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw… — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
Our mandate in Habitat for Humanity is to work diligently to help bring into being graceful communities, towns, and cities. his is… — Millard Fuller Copy Share Image
This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a… — Mr. Lee Copy Share Image
We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse… — Will Self Copy Share Image
We will implement this consent decree because we know that it is in the best interests of our city that the police… — Catherine E. Pugh Copy Share Image
Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a… — Chris Thomas King Copy Share Image
...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city… — Paul Coffey Copy Share Image
If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is,… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman… — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does.… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The rest of the songs on the album [Mortal City ] have spare arrangements on them. Steve [Miller], really loved that. He'd… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never… — Caroline Llewellyn Copy Share Image
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off… — Denzel Whitaker Copy Share Image
Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym,… — Laurie David Copy Share Image
My favorite place in the whole world is the city of Paris. to me, Paris stands at the frontier of every major… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image