Cities Quotes - Page 34

• The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

  Joseph Rykwert

  Impossible, Architecture, Kind

  "Property prices are "castrating the whole notion of city life"". Interview with James Pallister, www.dezeen.com. February 24, 2014.

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• The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

  Bertrand Delanoe

  Facts, Architecture, Bigs

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• Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.

  Amelia Barr

  Song, Gratitude, Light

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• When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the school bus for the first day of kindergarten, a close colleague changing jobs, a move to a new city - we are more likely to appreciate [be grateful for] and savor the remaining time that we do have. Although bittersweet experiences also make us sad, it is this sadness that prompts us, instead of taking it for granted, to come to appreciate the positive aspects of our vacation, colleague, or hometown; it's 'now or never.'

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Gratitude, Jobs, Children

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• I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

  Elliott Smith

  People, Faces, Saws

  Song: High Times, Album: New Moon, 2007

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• Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in.

  Sam Ewing

  Doors, House, Bars

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• Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are exemplary and greatly facilitate the work and daily life of WHO employees.

  Margaret Chan

  Population, Levels, Hospitality

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• The NYPD with the unconditional support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has stopped-and-frisked more black men than there are black men in New York City. Institutionalized racial discrimination in the United States is alive and well.

  Chris Hayes

  New York, Men, Support

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• What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of Waco, the Branch Davidian compound?...Obviously, the answer is talk radio. Specifically Rush Limbaughs hate radio....Frankly, Rush, you have that blood on your hands now and you have had it for 15 years.

  Keith Olbermann

  Hate, Oklahoma City, Blood

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• Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.

  Ai Weiwei

  Nightmare, Beijing, Constant

  "Ai Weiwei on Beijing's Nightmare City". www.newsweek.com. August 28, 2011.

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• A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

  Ai Weiwei

  Incomplete, Maximum, Offers

  "Ai Weiwei on Beijing's Nightmare City". www.newsweek.com. August 28, 2011.

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• The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

  Josiah Strong

  Civilization, Storm, Nerves

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.

  Charles Clarke

  Small Numbers, Evil, London

  "MI5 Faces Tough Questions on Decision to Relax Security". www.independent.co.uk. July 08, 2005.

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• The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild land can provide work for those who need it as their source of income without being ruined for those who need it as their source of sanity.

  Timothy Egan

  Years, Land, Population

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• There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Country, School, World Religions

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• People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.

  Robert Anasi

  New York, Want Something, People

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• I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.

  Michael Arad

  People, Navy, Together

  "Test Drive" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. October 12, 2007.

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• It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.

  Michael Arad

  Country, New York, Responsibility

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• The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.

  Ernest Poole

  Thinking, People, Trouble

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• A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

  John Bruton

  Nuclear, Economic, Terrorist

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• I am deeply grateful for all the friendships that I have all across this district, especially here in Ithaca. Ithacas a wonderful place. Im very proud to be the person who represents the city and some of Tompkins County.

  Maurice Hinchey

  Grateful, Proud, Wonderful

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• Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.

  Elif Safak

  Bridges, Appreciate, Trying

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• The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life inside me? I'd like to give it ... to make a present of it ... to go up to people and tell them: You need to be joyful! You know? You have to play at being pirates ... to build cities of marble ... to laugh ... to set off firecrackers

  Roberto Arlt

  Crazy, Thinking, Play

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• I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell

  Nellie Bly

  Mean, Heaven, Liberty

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press

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• Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

  Roland Joffe

  Wrestling, Joy, Political

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