Quotes About Cities

Just imagine how many more cyclists could help save our cities and prevent further global warming by adopting electric bikes, if they received strategic and financial support similar to electric car drivers.

While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful.

Conant was worried too. He believed that the Mafia, who maintained strong links to bathhouses in other cities, was behind the quick changes in the health director's thinking.

New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.

I think there's a big difference between New York and Chicago.

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

Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to just play some cheesy music or do something that takes you right out of it, but 'Blade Runner' got it right, and I love that about the film.

It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.

I would like to get a house in Tuscany: aside from New York, cities do not appeal to me anymore.

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

Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.

Brazil will change when its cities change.

Most cities don't have a just cause eviction law. Most allow no cause evictions, as well as evictions for nonpayment.

You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important.

I have three favorite cities: London, Wellington, and Los Angeles. What makes them so good? The friends who live there.

When I'm on the road, restaurants are like gyms: I know where I want to be in each city.

I want to be able to fly like a superhero. I won't be happy until I can fly across oceans and cities, saving people from being murdered.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

There are cities that have no ... I don't know what to call it, an identity perhaps. A sense of being someplace different. Lots of those in the Empire. Very old cities with lots of history, but one day is much like the next.

Las grandes novelas son como las ciudades: lugares cotidianos donde suceden hechos extraordinarios. Todas las vidas posibles se superponen y se entrecruzan en sus calles y una ciudad es también un tejido de relatos.

The same sand currents had swallowed up and destroyed flourishing cities and great empires. They called it the sabulation of the Roman Empire, if he remembered rightly.

The Rhineland cities were developing the market economy that would eventually replace agrarian civilization; they were therefore in the very early stages of modernization, a transition that always strains social relations.

he bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilised ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.

It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.