City Quote by Norman Foster Download Open image “The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.” — Norman Foster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare City Italians Known Long Makes Town
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty. — Francois Pinault Copy Share Image
Italians still know how to enjoy life, even as the country seems stuck in place. — Matteo Renzi Copy Share Image
The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same .. there's a sense of beauty… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian. — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
For a Spaniard, Italy is the best place to live. You've got all the beauty, history, art, good food, and fashion. — Alvaro Morata Copy Share Image
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Italy has been a single, united country only since 1870. For many centuries before this, it was a collection of independent “city states.” Each… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Didn't think her vision was consistent with the ORC, especially the way the Council wishes to work with the ORC. For example, with regard… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. It's also,… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of people come out of Carol City, but I had this distinct vision for Carol City, just me coming out… — Denzel Curry Copy Share Image
I always say if you put someone from a small town into a big city for ten years, then when they go back, they'll… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image
In my first 100 days as Ontario's Minister of Transportation, I found a willing municipal partner in the City of Toronto that shares our… — Caroline Mulroney Copy Share Image
Even after my family moved West, I would come back to Long Island as a teenager, stay with aunts and go to the city… — Everlast Copy Share Image
We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko 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
We have an obligation at the local level to do everything we can with the resources we have. And we do those things. But… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
