Cities Quotes
-
It's a blue-collar city Manchester that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.
-
What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
-
Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
-
Shiny new real estate may dress up a declining city, but it doesn’t solve its underlying problems. The hallmark of declining cities is that they have too much housing and infrastructure relative to the strength of their economies. With all that supply of structure and so little demand, it makes no sense to use public money to build more supply. The folly of building-centric urban renewal reminds us that cities aren’t structures; cities are people.
-
I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.
-
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
-
Market forces do not make cities, they destroy them
-
All cities have one key resource: the special abilities of the people who live in them. You just have to find out what they are. In the Australian city of Adelaide, for example, which is overshadowed by Sydney and Melbourne, I discovered a number of experts in the penal system. I advised them to work with these special skills.
-
In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come to challenge the seating of the regular Democratic Party from Mississippi. But we didn't think when we got there that we would meet people, that actually the other leaders of the Movement would differ with what we felt was right.
-
Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.
-
Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?
-
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.
-
Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.
-
If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.
-
“When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California.”
-
Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.
-
There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any Democrats representing rural districts. There's me, Rick Nolan, Tim Walz, Dave Loebsack and Cheri Bustos. So that's five. And all the rest of them are in urban cities. That's a problem.
-
No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.
-
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
-
Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.
-
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
-
When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
-
I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.
-
I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.
