Cities Quote by Nelson Algren Download Open image “For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.” — Nelson Algren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Heart Labor Mass
We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city. — Manuel Moroun Copy Share Image
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
“They say the city gets in your blood, but that's crap. The city doesn't become part of you... you become part of it. It… — Jeff Lemire Copy Share Image
The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership. — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Copy Share Image
Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy). — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries.… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with the business… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves,… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“For way down there, in a shot glass's false bottom, everything was bound to turn out fine after all.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout,… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Nor all your piety nor all your preaching, nor all your crusades nor all your threats can stop one girl from going on the… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“If you feel you belong to things as they are, you won’t hold up anyone in the alley no matter how hungry you may… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
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