America Quote by Mohsin Hamid

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

— Henri Rousseau

Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This…

— Jane Jacobs

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the…

— Howard Rheingold

“The availability of irrigation systems to water the land and produce grain and other food crops was the material foundation for these two great…

— Norman F. Cantor

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

— Bill Bryson

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more…

— Thomas Paine

When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Like public surface in general, sewers are unbelievably important. They're so important that we make sure they work basically all of the time. Which…

— Pete Buttigieg

“These people were building homes for the rich, but they lived in tents covered with blue tarpaulin sheets, and partitioned into lanes by lines…

— Aravind Adiga

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

— Henry Miller

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.

— Rose George