Cities Quotes
4162 quotes by 2604 authors
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San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world.
— Rosalynn Carter
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Here in Russia,, in many cities, people are irritated by Caucasian intrusion. Caucasians come from foreign countries; they are ubiquitous: in markets, shops, hotels, restaurants.…
— Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals…
— Paul Theroux
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The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent…
— Stewart Udall
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I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of…
— Stewart Udall
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Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon…
— Lincoln Steffens
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For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a…
— Alex Steffen
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Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next…
— Alex Steffen
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People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance…
— Allan Savory
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Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to…
— David Suzuki
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I love trawling through markets and vintage shops, and I make super-quick decisions about buying clothes. I also have my usual haunts I go to…
— Alice Temperley
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I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an…
— Richard Rogers
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Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from…
— Richard Rogers
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There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together.…
— Richard Rogers
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With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit…
— Sarah McLachlan
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I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff…
— Tom Ford
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Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging…
— Henry Rollins
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Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities…
— Richard Lamm
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Nothing can be more striking to one who is accustomed to the little inclosures called public parks in our American cities, than the spacious, open…
— William Cullen Bryant
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