Cities Quotes

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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining… — Joan Didion
You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but… — Aristophanes
I'll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me! — Homer
Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has… — Pericles
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.' — John F. Kennedy
Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities? — Saddam Hussein
Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. — Robinson Jeffers
There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse,… — Kurt Cobain
I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city… — Warren Christopher
O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good… — Walt Whitman
I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; Â I dreamed… — Walt Whitman
Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I… — Samuel R. Delany
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that… — Harlan Ellison
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount… — Jane Jacobs
There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit… — Jane Jacobs
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive… — Jane Jacobs
I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed,… — Jane Jacobs
Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds… — Jane Jacobs
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon.… — Jane Jacobs
In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity. — Jane Jacobs

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