Cities Quotes

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In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also be different. It… — Oscar Niemeyer
I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for… — Tadao Ando
Iâ€™ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people canâ€™t invent a better… — Wendell Berry
Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. — Henry David Thoreau
When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded… — Henry David Thoreau
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is… — John Doolittle
Nature made the fields and man the cities. — Marcus Terentius Varro
Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. — Marcus Terentius Varro
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars.… — Salman Rushdie
Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families… — Allan Fromme
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the best restaurants in… — Anthony Bourdain
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young — Pat Metheny
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be… — Camille Paglia
There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second… — Jan Morris
It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the… — Paolo Bacigalupi
Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in… — Regis Philbin
What is the city but the people? — William Shakespeare
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their… — Alcaeus
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely… — Edward Hoagland

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