Cities Quotes - Page 10

• Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and
  brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?

  Polybius

  Mean, Rome, Years

  Polybius, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (2012). “The Histories of Polybius: Translated from the Text of F. Hultsch”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?

  Saddam Hussein

  Country, America, Doe

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• Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Lying, Feet, Mountain

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.23, Stanford University Press

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• O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

  Walt Whitman

  Dead Poets Society, Leaves Of Grass, Foolish

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

  Jane Jacobs

  Numbers, People, Diversity

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.201, Vintage

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• It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so.

  Jane Jacobs

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "The Death and Life of Great American Cities". Book by Jane Jacobs, p. 71, 1961.

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• This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

  Jane Jacobs

  Safe, City Streets, Used

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

  Jane Jacobs

  Support, Pieces, Supplements

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.

  Leon Krier

  Spiritual, Reality, Land

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.90, Papadakis Publisher

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• All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation.

  Leon Krier

  Law, Space, Quality

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.439, Island Press

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• That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about

  John Zorn

  People, May, Information

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• An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.

  Jan Gehl

  Numbers, Green, Building

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• I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.

  Jane Jacobs

  Dwelling, Use, Downtown

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.164, Vintage

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• New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city. When all of these kinds of music blended into one, jazz was born.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Military, Echoes, New Orleans

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• Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.

  Carolyn Cassady

  Moving, Book, Documentaries

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• The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

  Democritus

  Men, Brave, Enemy

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 163), 1948.

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• Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

  Clive James

  Dirty, Names, Prejudice

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

  John Zorn

  Song, Japan, Stuff

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• Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

  Kenzo Tange

  Architecture, Consideration, Importance

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• And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Design, Needs, Restoration

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

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• I miss Seattle a lot. It was my first city that I lived in on my own. It was a great city to play for. It was unfortunate for the fans what happened, but it’s time to move on. I’m sure they’ve moved on. But in the back of my mind, I still have a thing for Seattle and always am going to remember what they’ve done for me.

  Kevin Durant

  Moving, Play, Missing

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• We wanted to impress the crowd so much. The city has done so much for us and welcomed us right in, and we just wanted to give them a good show and show them that we're going to play for them. I think guys just had a little bit of jitters.

  Chris Paul

  Thinking, Play, Giving

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• Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit of humility and respect for the facts and for history. What as the meaning of ROME, OPEN CITY? We were emerging from the tragedy of the war. We had all taken part in it, for we were all its victims. I sought only to picture the essence of things. I had absolutely no interest in telling a romanticized tale along the usual lives of film drama. The actual facts were each more dramatic than any screen cliche.

  Roberto Rossellini

  War, Drama, Taken

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• Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a spurt of brilliance. It is shot through with originality, verve, and-why not go all the way?-genius. People love it, can't get enough of it, can't stop performing it-and they are not wrong. For closing in on a half- century now, The Music Man has been performed continually, in every American city, town, and village, and in other parts of the world as well, not excluding Peking.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, People, Why Not

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• Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Judging, Rural Areas, Judged

  Sharyn McCrumb (2013). “The Ballad of Frankie Silver: A Ballad Novel”, p.395, Macmillan

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