Cities Quotes - Page 135

I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never know where you are going to end up.

I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

Toronto is a city that has yet to fall in love with itself.

I think people's minds are going to have to assimilate in the sense that all the world is international now. The whole world has gone global. I think cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles are the models of our future.

The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost.

I find that people can’t find you. It’s kind of quiet. When I go to a city, I can almost always get a piano if I need one. So there’s something nice about being on the road and focusing on something you want to do.

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.

In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.

In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.

so id burn this whole city down just to show you the light

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 to be in the same city - forget the same stage - with President Obama.

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.