Cities Quotes

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A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise itâ€™s incomplete. — Ai Weiwei
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center, — Josiah Strong
The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London. — Charles Clarke
The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild… — Timothy Egan
There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in… — Marilyn Ferguson
People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that. — Robert Anasi
I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe… — Michael Arad
It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of… — Michael Arad
One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The… — Aldo Rossi
The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so. — Ernest Poole
I am deeply grateful for all the friendships that I have all across this district, especially here in Ithaca. Ithacas a wonderful place. Im very… — Maurice Hinchey
Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of… — Elif Safak
The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in St. Louis. It… — Ernie Harwell
A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence. — John Bruton
The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life… — Unknown Author
I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it… — Nellie Bly
Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually… — Roland Joffe
The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed,… — Kim Edwards
Someone should have a record that doesn't have any singing. It's my favorite Miles Davis record. I love hanging out in the summer, in New… — Craig Finn
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 express… — Witold Rybczynski

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