Cities Quotes - Page 34

• I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

  Hope Edelman

  New York, Chance, Failing

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• You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Chicago, Michigan

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• There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.

  Dawn Powell

  Majors

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.

  George Steiner

  Trying, Praxis, Opposing

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• The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.

  B. C. Forbes

  Humble, Responsibility, Biblical

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.120, Lulu.com

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• We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

  James Henry Breasted

  Land, America, Transformation

  James Henry Breasted (1919). “The Origins of Civilization”

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• My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.

  Patrick Roy

  Quality, Quebec, Extraordinary

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• The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis

  Henry Mayhew

  Wall, Space, Acres

  Henry Mayhew (2016). “The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts”, p.42, Routledge

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• Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient milieu to which he was adapted for hundreds of thousands of years . In our cities there is no more day or night or heat or cold. But there is overpopulation, thralldom to press and television, total absence of purpose. All men are constrained by means external to them to ends equally external. The further the technical mechanism develops that allows us to escape natural necessity, the more we are subjected to artificial technical necessities.

  Jacques Ellul

  Mean, Night, Men

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• Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up 40 percent of Afghanistan’s doctors, 70 percent of its teachers and 30 percent of its civil servants. A small number of women even held important political posts as members of Parliament and judges. Most women did not wear the burqa.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Girl, Teacher, School

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• If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be - community-building places, attractive for all people - then we will have successfully designed about one-third of the city directly and will have had an immense impact on the rest.

  Allan Jacobs

  Impact, People, Design

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• No great city has ever been known for its abundant supply of parking.

  Allan Jacobs

  Parking, Great Cities, Known

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• This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

  Radha Mitchell

  Dream, Acting, Different

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• Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

  Protagoras

  Advice, Excellence, Accepting

  "Protagoras". Book by Plato, Oxford University Press, p. 19, 2002.

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• Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Vegetarianism, Land

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.665, Jazzybee Verlag

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• From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Kindness, America, Viewpoints

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Girl, Zoos, Animal

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• The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

  John Guare

  Life, New York, Dancer

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• I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Spiritual, Circles, House

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• Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

  Tahir Shah

  Obsession, Lost

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Team, Cooking, Way

  "Win in New York" by Gilbert Arenas, www.nba.com. December 7, 2006.

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• Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).

  Bill Kraus

  Artist, People, Risk

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• We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word “home.”

  William Cronon

  Home, Needs, Common

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• Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.

  Ben Webster

  Night, Kansas City, Different

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• A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

  Unknown

  Giving, Should, Built

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