Our Cities Quotes

72 Our Cities quotes by 65 unique authors

Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives. — Nathan Glazer
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient… — Jacques Ellul
To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we… — Alex Steffen
Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They're branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to conduct mass killings.… — Benjamin Netanyahu
As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless we… — Richard M. Nixon
Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes — Marcus Terentius Varro
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy
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
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
We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education… — Grace Lee Boggs
As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child… — Susan Oliver
In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed through our cities,… — John Ashcroft
We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic… — Garrison Keillor
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible Government which like a giant Octopus, sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states, and nation. — John Francis Hylan
If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. — Harvey Milk
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build… — Barbara Kingsolver
We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins — Ellen Ullman
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities… — Henry David Thoreau
A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save… — Stewart Udall
The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse. — John Keats
I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation,… — Gaylord Nelson
I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce… — Michael Nutter
Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat… — Bob Barr
Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois… — Jean-Francois Cope
Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes… — Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

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