Top 1200 Big Cities Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

I don't do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we're flying in and out of these major cities every week.

Making art in big cities is often frustrating and difficult. It's why artists are drawn to smaller places.

What people want now, they want jobs. They want great jobs with good pay. And I'll tell you, we're spending a lot of money on the inner cities - we are fixing the inner cities - we are doing far more than anybody has done with respect to the inner cities. It is a priority for me, and it's very important.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities survive and lead the way in the transformation required to combat global warming? Resilient Cities gives us a road map for this epic journey upon which we are embarking.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

Unlike London or other big cities, there's a great tolerance for motorbikes in Ireland. Culturally, it's quite different.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up, has a lot of big cities, like Boston and New York, and is more densely populated, and I instantly fell in love with the big open spaces of the West, where you can see not just for a few miles but for a few hundred miles.

If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.

What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don't have the resources necessary to fill that gap.

It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.

I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.

Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced.

As industries migrate toward the Far East, the future of many Western cities will no longer lie in manufacturing products but ideas and patents. Young, mobile elites can choose where they want to live, and they can easily move, which means that cities are involved in a heated competition for the best people. Only the most attractive cities can benefit from this development.

Obviously as a mayor, I'm in competition with my neighboring cities as well as cities around the country.

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

I grew up in big cities my whole life, and in my late 20s, I just felt like I was looking for something else.

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.

In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers.

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price.

Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.

Veterans come from all walks of life, and they live in small towns and big cities, in red states and blue states.

I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew.

What if cities embraced a culture of sharing? I see a future of shared cities that bring us community and connection instead of isolation and separation.

If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.

You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo.

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.

You go to a lot of cities they've got these great big footballer's houses. There's not many in Stoke-on-Trent.

I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: a city cannot be a work of art.

I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Big cities like New York are thriving, economically, culturally, in terms of real estate values, and by a slew of other measures. Yet, at the same time, much of the country has been utterly hollowed out. In California, where I live, affluent coastal cities such as San Francisco and the Silicon Valley hubs have lower than national average unemployment, higher wages, higher tax bases. Meanwhile, there are inland counties in California where there's still nearly 20 percent unemployment.

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living.

With Hyperloop One, the world will be cleaner, safer, and faster. It's going to make the world a lot more efficient and will impact the ways our cities work, where we live, and where we work. We'll be able to move between cities as if cities themselves are metro stops.

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

Well, the Argentinians are very attached to their athletes, and you know, there are some cities with a big Argentinean community. Miami is the main one for sure, Orlando, Houston, Denver.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.