« All City Quotes · Lewis Mumford's Page
City Quotes by Lewis Mumford
- The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of…
- The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually…
- New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
- The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction…
More City Quotes
- 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
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader… — Michelle Bachelet
- London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that… — David Bailey
- My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something… — Cleveland Abbe
- I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would… — Alec Baldwin
- What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be… — Christian Bale
- I would love to do a television show in New York City. — Ellen Barkin
- I love New York City; I've got a gun. — Charles Barkley