Business Quote by Mary Ritter Beard

“Meanwhile, Florence was increasingly becoming, for different reasons that not were not foreign to one another nor opposed – artistic and cultural on the…

— Franco Cardini

“We residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little - handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence, from Florence…

— E.M. Forster

“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse energies are…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

— Raymond Williams

The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.

— Alessandro Michele

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the…

— Jane Jacobs

“The city-state was the means by which the Greek consciously strove to make the life both of the community and of the individual more…

— H.D.F. Kitto

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right…

— Richard Rogers

“Yet the need for justifying the wealth and power of great corporations in the eyes of the people has never been greater. Why not…

— Eric Hoffer

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

— Jane Jacobs

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts;…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Here in Rome, “men live for something else beside money and systems, the voice of noble sentiment is understood.” She had found in Italy…

— Megan Marshall