Quotes of: City Keyword

In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics.

Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?

Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco

There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the civilization, but to become that city, that civilization, you once took a pickaxe and destroyed what...

The Powerbook

It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city 'livable' f...

Stella Young

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'

Thomas Frank

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadi...

Leonard Woodcock

Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied to sewage overflows. Though the city's drinking water comes from upstate reservoirs, environmentalists say untreated e...

Charles Duhigg

A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and fog...

Herb Caen

Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!

Christian Louboutin

At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest ...

Jonathan Raban

Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect...

Fernando Torres

My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.

Steve Earle

My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

One great building does not make a great city.

Thomas Heatherwick

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

Italo Calvino

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Baz Luhrmann

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

Greg Kinnear

I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.

Rose Byrne

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Augustus

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

William Julius Wilson

All that remains of the garden city in our own day are traffic-free enclaves, islands in a sea of traffic where the pedestrian leads a legally protected by languishing existence, comparable to that of the North American Indians on their reservations....

The Situationists and the City: A Reader