Cities Quotes
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The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.
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No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.
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“When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California.”
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Cities need to reinvent themselves in order to stay alive.
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Cities don’t make people poor; they attract poor people.
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I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot
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I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
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Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places.
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When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.
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Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.
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Next year [2017], we are going to hold a series of events there that we would like to call Russian Seasons [in Japan]. Over 40 different activities - and what is more, in different cities.
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So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.
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In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.
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I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
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I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.
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Fifty-thousand were gathered March,27th,1933 in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about seven other American cities. At each supportive rally, thousands huddled around loudspeakers waiting for the Garden event, which would be broadcast live via radio to 200 additional cities across the country. At least 1 million Jews were participating nationwide. Perhaps another million Americans of non-Jewish descent heritage stood with them.
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It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.
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New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.
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I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.
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Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.
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The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.
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And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.
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When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
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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.
