Cities Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“I think you’ll find that’s very good wine,” he said. “I know we don’t get much of a chance to judge good wine in…

— Ernest Hemingway

Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the…

— Diogenes

Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement…

— Richard Serra

There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age… I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than…

— Alexander Smith

Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the…

— Richie Benaud

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were…

— Jane Jacobs

When Å vejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies…

— Jaroslav Hašek

“At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen on the Promenade des Anglais—a charming place, for the…

— Louisa May Alcott

If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.

— Dorothy Parker

The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell…

— Theodor Adorno

The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order .…

— Wallace Thurman

“There is no word to describe exactly what the High Line is to the non-architects among us, nor the collective reframing process required to…

— Sarah Lewis

“How many ghosts might return to the promenade, haunted by the echoes of those promises, perhaps eager to catch a glimpse of what could…

— A.J. Reid

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Toronto's likable, but it could be a lot more, as I think Montreal is, lovable. What we need more than anything, I think, is…

— Andy Barrie