Our Cities Quotes
72 Our Cities quotes by 65 unique authors
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Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility…
— Chris Cannon
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We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any…
— Ray Bradbury
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If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of…
— George Steiner
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Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
— Frank Gehry
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I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st…
— Antony Gormley
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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil…
— Nancy Pelosi
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By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns…
— Kevin Rudd
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But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too…
— John F. Kennedy
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the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people…
— Banksy
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What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to…
— Bjarke Ingels
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Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel…
— Bjarke Ingels
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The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent…
— Stewart Udall
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There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together.…
— Richard Rogers
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Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.
— Anthony Albanese
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We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solution. Why are all these…
— Rogier van der Heide
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I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in…
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities,…
— George Lincoln Rockwell
Who Wrote These Our Cities Quotes
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