Cities Quote by Yi-Fu Tuan Download Open image “A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.” — Yi-Fu Tuan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities City City Seen Construction Great cities Great city Language May Seen Construction Stones Wells Words Stone
The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place.… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“I’m crazy about this City. Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half. In the top half I see looking faces and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it’s said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions,… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos.… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction. — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd. — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of… — Yi-Fu Tuan 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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