Cities Quotes - Page 30

• From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Kindness, America, Viewpoints

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• San Francisco is the only city in America where marijuana is legal but plastic bags are not.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, San Francisco, America

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• You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Girl, Zoos, Animal

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• The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

  John Guare

  Life, New York, Dancer

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• Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

  John Milton

  House, Liberty, London

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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• Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

  Anthony Weiner

  Education, Three, Want

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• I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Spiritual, Circles, House

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• Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

  Tahir Shah

  Obsession, Lost

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with no one to meet, no duties, no obligations. I had nothing to do and a thousand nameless, sun-drenched streets to do it in.

  Steven Saylor

  Mind, Sun, Destination

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• The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Team, Cooking, Way

  "Win in New York" by Gilbert Arenas, www.nba.com. December 7, 2006.

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• Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).

  Bill Kraus

  Artist, People, Risk

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• It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

  Hermann Maier

  Careers, Lakes, Salt

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• Cities at daybreak are no one's,
  and have no names.
  And I, too, have no name,
  dawn, the stars growing pale,
  the train picking up speed.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Stars, Names, Dawn

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• Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.

  Alasdair Gray

  New York, Book, Artist

  Alasdair Gray, Joy Hendry (1991). “Chapman”

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• It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

  David Simon

  America, Criminals, Baltimore

  "The escalating breakdown of urban society across the US" by David Simon, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word “home.”

  William Cronon

  Home, Needs, Common

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• Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.

  Ben Webster

  Night, Kansas City, Different

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• But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

  Patrick Geddes

  Drama, Space

  Sir Patrick Geddes (1972). “Patrick Geddes: spokesman for man and the environment: a selection”

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• A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

  Unknown

  Giving, Should, Built

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• Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  New York, Blow, Tin Cans

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• It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.

  Robert McCracken

  Life, Suffering, Trying

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• The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. ... No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves.

  Mary McCarthy

  Life, Character, Views

  "On the contrary".

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• Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Philosophy, Home

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• YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Honor, Youth

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.242, University of Georgia Press

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• If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Girl, Baby, Years

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