"A city is not gauged by its length……" — Herb Caen
"A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams."
Related Quotes
- Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules… — Italo Calvino
- Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States,… — Georges Pompidou
- Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land. — Leon Krier
- When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. — Hugh Newell Jacobsen
- A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims. — Leon Krier
- A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it,… — Louis Kahn
- All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it… — Peter Conrad
- A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity,… — Charles Abrams
- My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex… — James Buchan
- Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the… — Gerald Stanley Lee
34 Quotes by Herb Caen
Herb Caen has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
- The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
- Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
- San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
- A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a…
- I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when…
- A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step…
- New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.
- Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
- Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.
- A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you…
- Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.
More Broadness Quotes
This quote is filed under Broadness Quotes, one of 2 quotes in that category. Here are a few more: