Cities Quotes
-
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.
-
My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.
-
Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people. The flow of less advantaged people into cities from Rio to Rotterdam demonstrates urban strength, not weakness.
-
The City that knows how.
-
The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.
-
I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to be present.
-
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.
-
What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.
-
Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.
-
Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.
-
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.
-
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
-
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.
-
It's a blue-collar city Manchester that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.
-
Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.
-
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
-
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
-
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.
-
How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.
-
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
-
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
-
Because we're becoming such an urban nation, we're going to need to be producing so much more food in cities. These institutions have members, obviously. They have the resources to start projects like urban farms and gardens, teaching tools, and the ability to educate their members so that they can then go home and start their own urban gardens. I just really think that faith-based institutions can take the lead in creating community-based food systems, and I'd really like to see that happen.
-
The whole function of cities has been transformed.
-
I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.
