Skyscraper Quotes

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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being,… — Diane Ackerman
I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers. — Bryan Adams
We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim… — Barack Obama
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad… — Mark Twain
To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a… — Isaac Mizrahi
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. — E. M. Forster
There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories. — Bobby Heenan
No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper. — Jadakiss
[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just as… — Donald Trump
And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and… — Saddam Hussein
There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for… — Norman Thomas
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. — Federico Garcia Lorca
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its… — George Gershwin
I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper. — John Keegan
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too.… — Wally Lamb
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the… — Jared Diamond
The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a… — Arrigo Sacchi
I mean, I know thousands of people died and everything, but if it happened today, there's just no excuse. They'd be much safer inside a… — Zach Braff
Whoâ€™s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just donâ€™t know. The gamble of triumph… — Ada Louise Huxtable
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. — Roland Barthes

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