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Cities Quotes by John Ruskin
- 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…
- The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its…
- The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we…
- Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour.…
- An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by…
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman