Cities Quotes

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I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because I knew that… — Michelle Obama
In the 10 cities with the nation's highest obesity rates, the direct costs connected with obesity and obesity-related diseases are roughly $50 million per 100,000… — Michelle Obama
Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City. — Linus Pauling
The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back. — Stephanie Tubbs Jones
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our… — David Harvey
Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered… — Meredith Willson
The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above… — Laura Miller
The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so… — Chuck Klosterman
Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about… — Tony Visconti
The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which… — Oswald Chambers
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that… — Jonah Lehrer
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up -… — Renzo Piano
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. — Rebecca Solnit
Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a cityâ€™s wealth of public life must grow. — Jane Jacobs
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs. — Jane Jacobs
One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city — Aldo Rossi
I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But [in New York City] you have to really look up to realize… — El Anatsui
Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem — Neal Shusterman
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk… — Annie Dillard
Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures ,… — Renzo Piano

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