Cities Quotes - Page 105

Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.

If it's in your personality to get out and talk to people, then you get to see what it is that city has to offer, through the people. A lot of the times with your own eyes you don't get to see that.

That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city. The Temple of Heaven slipped by underneath, that perfect pattern in its ample park. Then the wide plain ruled to the far horizon. Soon the aerodrome.

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health." - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland)

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default "getaway" city.

... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.

Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.

The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.

If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.

One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.

If you don't own a train company then you go and paint on one instead... it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something... that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

One of the huge advantages of shooting in the winter is that locations that wouldn't have been available to us suddenly were, like Yorkville. ... It's just specific streets and specific angles. I think that's what's always kind of shocking about some cities: they are really about intersections.