Quotes About Cities

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.

I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.

Because I have homes in Nashville and in Los Angeles, I've found some pretty amazing places to shop in both cities.

With the national team, we have these fans, people love of us, people come up to us in our cities, and they're like, 'We love you - what are you doing in Seattle?' And I'm like, 'I live here, and I've played here for the last five years.'

In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.

Russia today has over a hundred monogorods, cities in which many workers are employed by a single, often practically bankrupt firm left over from the period of shock industrialization in the 1930s and 1940s.

We can build cities for the Romans." "Actually, I was thinking about saving mankind." "Forget that nonsense, Josh. Rocks, I tell you.

Ho messo Praga proprio all'inizio perché è una tra le mie città magiche. Ma mi piace anche Dublino. Metta Dublino al posto di Praga, non farà nessuna differenza. A quel punto la reazione dei traduttori fu: Ma Dublino non è stata invasa dai russi! Al che risposi: Non è colpa mia.

Se trafica más en Aviñón que en Florencia!

The greater the reduction of these fossil fuel–based services, the greater the need for the labor force to leave the cities to produce food in the old ways.

These camps – with their streets and squares, their hospitals and flea markets, their crematoria and their stadiums – were the expanding cities of a new Europe.

During the thousand years of her history Russia had seen many great things. During the Soviet period the country had seen global military victories, vast construction sites, whole new cities, dams across the Dnieper and the Volga, canals joining different seas. The country had seen mighty tractors and skyscrapers...There was only one thing Russia had not seen during this thousand years: freedom.

Time is a transparent medium. People and cities arise out of it, move through it and disappear back into it. It is time that brings them and time that takes them away.

Steven Johnson's Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software.

In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet.

The cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

As cidades, tal como as florestas, têm os seus antros onde se oculta tudo o que têm de pior e de mais temível. A única diferença é que, nas cidades, o que se esconde assim é feroz, imundo e pequeno, ou seja, feio; nas florestas, o que se esconde é feroz, selvagem e grande, ou seja, belo. Tocas por tocas, as dos animais são preferíveis às dos homens, As cavernas valem mais do que as pocilgas

La historia de las ciudades se refleja en sus cloacas.

It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool in a blink, and cities burn to ash in a mere flutter of lashes.

Thank you to the world for being a wild and inspiring place, full of odd creatures, strange people, and mysterious cities. I hope by and by to know you better.

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.