Cities Quotes

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in… — Rainer Maria Rilke
How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we… — John Maeda
In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking… — Alan Weisman
It's amazing how I'm able to ride around on a bike. People kind of see it's me but since I'm on a bike, they think,… — Beyonce Knowles
The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of… — Jane Jacobs
The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power over… — Thurman Arnold
A few suits of clothes, some money in the bank, and a new kind of fear constitute the main differences between the average American today… — Philip Wylie
My spiritual connection with nature is basically what we all have - you transcend yourself. It's what happens when you see a sunset, for example.… — Robert Johnson
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones,… — Christina Stead
The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some… — Clive James
Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens. — Robin Boyd
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is… — Charlotte Mason
A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass. — A J Liebling
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. — Lewis Mumford
New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory. I will do… — Harry Connick, Jr.
Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I… — John Ruskin
If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in… — Martin Luther
I play to lift a city, and raise a banner. — Prince Fielder
Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000… — Mark Tooley
The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different — Cate Blanchett

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