Cities Quotes - Page 23

• It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

  Jay McShann

  Kansas City, Two, Gigs

  7 Copy quote

• In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid.

  Jay Smith

  Queens, Eight, Cells

  4 Copy quote

• I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.

  Ray Conniff

  Smile, New York, Fun

  4 Copy quote

• I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.

  Didi

  College, Two, Years

  4 Copy quote

• To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

  Eric Alterman

  Age, United States, Kind

  "Out of Print". www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

  James Keller

  Courage, Individuality, Atmosphere

  8 Copy quote

• There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, New Orleans, French Quarter

  7 Copy quote

• Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

  Jane Byrne

  Chicago, Neighborhood

  4 Copy quote

• At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.

  M. John Harrison

  Girl, Heart, Insecure

  M. John Harrison (2007). “Viriconium”, p.34, Spectra

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the three heavens within the celestial kingdom. With few exceptions this is the salvation of which the scriptures speak. It is the salvation which the saints seek. (Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed., Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966, p. 670.)

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Lakes, Heaven, Exaltation

  4 Copy quote

• There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

  Jacque Fresco

  Perfect, Design, Finals

  7 Copy quote

• Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.

  Regis Philbin

  Inspirational, Basketball, New York

  4 Copy quote

• It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We'd be rich and they'd be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They're all full of it. Nothing balances out.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Boys, Soldier, Chinese

  4 Copy quote

• I really like to have a coffee shop next door and be able to smoke a cigarette. I'm a city person; I regard nature as something hostile and problematic. I do enjoy it when I get out there, but it is mostly against my will. It's a bit of an awkward thing to say - people really don't like it when you say that.

  Daniel Espinosa

  Coffee, Doors, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible.

  Maria Schell

  New York, Would Be, Should

  9 Copy quote

• Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

  Le Corbusier

  House, Waiting, Modern Life

  Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.3, Courier Corporation

  292 Copy quote

  Show source

• I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying.

  Tadao Ando

  Wall, Mean, Space

  88 Copy quote

• Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Swamps, Fields, Towns

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nature made the fields and man the cities.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Nature, Men, Fields

  8 Copy quote

• Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families scatter in pursuit of jobs and professions everywhere. In a world of wheels, old and comfortable groupings of people have disappeared.

  Allan Fromme

  Jobs, Loneliness, Dwelling

  6 Copy quote

• We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Women, Risk

  7 Copy quote

• There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city.

  Jan Morris

  Running, Dog, Travel

  64 Copy quote

• I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Views, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.28, Cambridge University Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

  Teju Cole

  Palimpsest, Site, Written

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.68, Random House

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York

  Mercy Otis Warren

  New York, Army, Islands

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.316

  11 Copy quote

  Show source