Quotes on Cities

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

Author: Shmuel Agnon

We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did.

Author: Ivan Allen

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

Author: Alan Bean

Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm.

Author: Jo Bonner

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

Author: Stewart Brand

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Author: Italo Calvino

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Author: Italo Calvino

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

Author: Iris Chang

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

Author: Roger Clemens

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

Author: Sean Connery

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

Author: Godfried Danneels

I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.

Author: Minnie Driver

The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.

Author: Jim Evans

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

Author: Bob Filner

There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

Author: Paul Getty

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

Author: Bob Goodlatte

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

Author: David Guterson

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

Author: Isaac Hanson

We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

Author: John Hench

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.

Author: Anthony Holden

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

Author: John Hooker

First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.

Author: Bobby Hull

I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

Author: Jack Irons

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Author: Daniel Libeskind

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Author: Olivier Messiaen

You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo.

Author: Hassan Nasrallah

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

Author: Pablo Neruda

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

Author: Dudley North

Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.

Author: Phillip Noyce

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

Author: Jose Orozco

The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which we've done.

Author: John Perkins

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

Author: Satyajit Ray

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

Author: Sally Ride

Cities must be fun.

Author: James Rouse

By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

Author: Harrison Salisbury

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Author: Georg Simmel

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

Author: Josiah Strong

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

Author: Josiah Strong

The international game has changed for bidding cities.

Author: Peter Ueberroth

Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.

Author: Tony Visconti

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

Author: Derek Walcott

What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.

Author: George Woodcock

The only adventure greater than life itself is trying to find a parking spot in the city.

Author: Maya Ellis