Top 1200 Great Cities Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We go to cities.

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

When you're younger and traveling and visiting new countries and cities, that stuff is exciting; it's flashy, it's shiny, but I always had this separation between who I was as a person and who I was as a player.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

From Sunbelt to Rustbelt, North to South, East to West, once-thriving cities have become little more than drug-infested slums.

Baltimore has the hardest work ethic out of all cities. It makes you want to work harder.

In most cities, it doesn't cost much to put your own show on a local access channel, so you get all sorts of strange stuff on the air.

I don't go on tour tours, I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.

My vision for the country is to urbanise rural areas. What is available in the cities must be available in the villages.

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

As long as there is a demand for me to visit other cities - and hopefully, other countries - that's what I want to do.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

Different cities have different vibes to them, and New York is such a huge, thriving metropolis.

In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

People have souls, and we all accept that cities have souls, too. It's why the locations are so important.

Fighting in cities is a totally different endeavor than obviously fighting out in the open.

Every time I come back to the Twin Cities, I feel like I'm coming back home.

Los Angeles has always been one of America's most entrepreneurial cities, but it is hard to recognize this because of how hardwired, literally, 'entpreneurism' has become.

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

I went to New York for a research trip, just because it has these iconic street canyons. It's one of the few cities that has sidewalks that are wide enough for a sea of umbrellas to be there.

We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.

I've always been fascinated with how transportation systems work and how cities are designed.

Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.

We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.

We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

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

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

I love Paris - it's one of my favorite cities - and so to shoot a video in Paris was a dream come true.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives, and in return, they are the places where social, environmental, and economic policies play out in practice.

The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.

Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and that they did it.

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.

Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great captain for them. He's been the outstanding player in the Premiership for the last three or four years

Sometimes there's cities where it's just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

I can go to cities and go to restaurants or the movies and occasionally I'll get recognized - but not for the most part.

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.

In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.

If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, There must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.