Quotes About City

Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

I will continue to defend Najaf as it is the holiest place. I will remain in the city until the last drop of my blood has been spilled.

Travelling makes me feel free. I love Cape Town, and different parts of Europe. I love New York; I could live there in a heartbeat. I love London. Mostly, I like travelling to untouched kind of places. I love the mountains.

I grew up in New York City, but the rest of the world was a very big part of my upbringing.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

It was a great experience for me - the ups and downs - because I became a man in Philadelphia.

Manchester City, the club and the fans, they were amazing. But I'm sorry, the city wasn't that nice. I was all the time at home, and I didn't enjoy it. It was raining all the time. I was a little bit upset.

The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.

Atlanta has a lot going on and part of that is upward mobility of the people who live there.

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there more rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn't be touched.

Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

The whole world is covered in graffiti. No one cares. It's just part of urban noise.

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

In most major cities, you can find stores for urban homesteaders. They sell everything you need so that you won't need anything. Sort of a 'Take This Civilization and Shove It' starter kit.

Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage people to live.

As SUVs are higher and heavier, they are more likely to kill the people they hit. Driving an SUV in an urban area is an antisocial act.

In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

The Olympic movement has made a conscious attempt to make sports and disciplines urban in nature.

There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.

A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.