Cities Quote by Ai Weiwei

Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

— Ai Weiwei

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

— Madeleine Peyroux

I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is…

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities…

— Marc Almond

Everybody I knew who was really ambitious and kind of annoying wanted to move to New York. I like it here but that has…

— Urs Fischer

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out…

— Olivier Theyskens

The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the…

— Colum McCann

I think there's something very peculiar about living in the city and not part of the major metropolis; that actually makes it remarkably easy…

— Steven Wilson

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get…

— Mark Gatiss

I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The…

— Cassandra Clare

I'll never forget my little city! I could talk a whole day about it!

— Alessandra Ambrosio

“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated. The…

— Meg Wolitzer