Cities Quote by Anonymous

The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which…

— Ma Yansong

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more…

— Timothy Keller

While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also…

— Witold Rybczynski

“I’m crazy about this City. Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half. In the top half I see looking faces and…

— Toni Morrison

Cities are magical things. You know the energy in them. You have to walk the streets in any borough here and you can see…

— Juan Enriquez

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They…

— Leon Krier

In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.

— Enrique Penalosa

Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than…

— Junot Diaz

“ministry. Sadly, there has never been a city on earth that is not saturated with human sin and corruption. Indeed, to paraphrase a Woody…

— Timothy Keller

“The beauty of modern cities consists in a sense of their power, cruelty, impersonality, massiveness, + variety (as in New York or London) seen…

— Susan Sontag

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this…

— Fritz Todt

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk