Cities Quotes - Page 24

• The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Sunshine, Dark, Night

  Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead

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• The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.

  Langdon Winner

  Country, Civilization, Sgt Pepper

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• With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

  Bill Schuette

  Government, America, Safety

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• When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

  Dermot Healy

  Teacher, Two, Treasure

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• There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

  Shelley Berkley

  Giving, Desire, Trying

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• The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.

  Jim Rogers

  Wall, Real, Two

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• I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth

  Norton Juster

  Book, Writing, Kids

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• Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.

  Jared Diamond

  Self, Europe, Healthy

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.176, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

  Ruth First

  Race, Land, Migrants

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• Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the city. I have created a space which virtually erases the boundaries between inside and outside – where people become a little uncertain as to whether they have stepped into a work or into a part of the museum. This uncertainty is important to me, as it encourages people to think and sense beyond the limits within which they are accustomed to moving.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Moving, Thinking, Museums

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• I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away. There is something almost haunted about it, a vibrant mythology I find rather inspiring.

  Hedi Slimane

  Los Angeles, Mythology, Late

  "Johnny Depp paints nails, Herman Cain ripped over moustache, Beastie Boys go bape, and Esquire gives 'damn good advice'" by Christina Moffitino and Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 10, 2011.

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• When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

  Augusten Burroughs

  New York, People, Piercings

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• Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just shrunk up - unevenly I might add - and eventually turned into wine-cork nubs. Then it would be a different story. Then men would get the pity that they deserve. As far as I'm concerned, baldness is the male breast cancer only worse, because almost everyone gets it. True, it's not life threatening. Just social-life threatening. But in New York City, there is no difference.

  Augusten Burroughs

  New York, Cancer, Wine

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• Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.

  Bill Mollison

  Country, Animal, Creating

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• A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable. The farmhouse, the concrete, the machinery, and outbuildings become relics of a bygone vibrancy when another family farm moves to the city financial centers for relief.

  Joel Salatin

  Moving, Air, Land

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• There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

  Jacque Fresco

  Perfect, Design, Finals

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• And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

  Donna Leon

  Distance, Angel, Wings

  Donna Leon (2015). “Death In A Strange Country: (Brunetti 2)”, p.151, Random House

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• Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

  Ginni Rometty

  Ambition, Order, Giving

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• The international game has changed for bidding cities.

  Peter Ueberroth

  Games, Bidding, Changed

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• A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.

  Al-Farabi

  Hate, Giving, Justice

  "The Dictionary of Islam vol. IV". 1991.

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• The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions.

  Pete Hamill

  War, Long, Pumps

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

  Pete Hamill

  Voice, Century, Frank

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• I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

  Gay Talese

  New York, Character, Writing

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.

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• Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with little fanfare, those moments. They're not particularly photogenic. There's no breach in the clouds to reveal the shining city on a hill. No folk dancing children outside your bus, no production values to speak of- just a glimpse of such quotidian, incontrovertible truth that after the initial shock at the supreme weirdness of it all, a kind of calm sets in. So this is to be my life.

  David Rakoff

  Children, Clouds, Dancing

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• Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo.

  Kid Rock

  Kids, Detroit, Littles

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