Cities Quotes

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No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place… — Grover Cleveland
Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our… — Rabindranath Tagore
It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes… — Caroline Dhavernas
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an… — Christopher Meloni
The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things — James Howard Kunstler
No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For… — Samuel Johnson
They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of… — Samuel Johnson
In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. — Aldous Huxley
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their… — Oscar Wilde
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. — Tacitus
When in Rome, do as Rome does. — Ambrose Bierce
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in… — Walter Benjamin
Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or… — Jean Baudrillard
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. — George Santayana
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break… — Dwight L. Moody
The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their… — Jean Baudrillard

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