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“That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.”

People May Children Long Real Play Values Space Cities Sun Quiet Taxes Europe Greed Long Ago Refuge Marvelous Estates Old People Great Cities Contractor Estate Taxes

Book:Fresh from the Laundry

Source: Fresh from the Laundry

“Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.”

Home Would Be Cities Streets Rome Tourists

Book:Rome and a Villa

Source: Rome and a Villa

“The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.”

“Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!”

Ifs Want Humans Stills Real Shows Light Past Human Beings Cities Streets Wall Standing Circles Emptiness Dusk

Book:Old Wine: A Novel

Source: Old Wine: A Novel

“But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”

Looks Cities Built Architecture City Life Rebuilding Vandalism Sacking

Author:Jane Jacobs

“Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.”

Cities Design Building Errors Architecture Trials Immense Laboratory Success And Failure Trial And Error

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.”

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.”

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.”

People Ifs Ideas Wanted Cities Prosperity Organized New Ideas

Author:Jane Jacobs

“When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: a city cannot be a work of art.”

Art Done Deals Cities Complexes Intense Limitation Works Of Art Dealing With Life

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.”

People Ends Today Cities Taken Streets Barbarism City Streets

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?”

Doe Real Today Answers Cities Worry Real Life Settlement Homogeneous

Book:The Death and Life of American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of American Cities

“[On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a cup of coffee before I noticed there was lipstick on the cup. There was wadded-up gum and lipstick on the napkin. I must have been sitting on that woman's lap for an hour.”

Has Beens Hours Cities Half New York Sitting Coffee Cups Sat Shops New York City Lap Drank Lipstick Coffee Cup Gum Oblivious Coffee Shop Napkins

Author:Laura Kightlinger

“For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.”

Source: Katharine Graham's Washington

“In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.”

Way Political Cities Linked

Book:Katharine Graham's Washington

Source: Katharine Graham's Washington

“Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.”

Firsts Two Deals Cities Beats Seasons Eight Chiefs Champion Bowls Jet Super Bowl Miami Kansas Baltimore Playoffs Kansas City Raiders Steelers Colts

Author:Joe Greene

“In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.”

“Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.”

Art Country House Sides Cities Tree Window California Suburbs Californians Country Houses

Book:The Poor Man

Source: The Poor Man

“Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.”

Heart Cities Los Angeles Sophisticated Eccentricity

Author:Stella Benson

“A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.”

Young Cities Majors Areas Tradition Roots Florida Miami Metropolitan

Book:The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

Source: The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

“[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years ago, and a proliferation of architectural excesses for which many people can and should be blamed.”

People Should Years Cities Years Ago Architecture Excess Eighty Handicaps Proliferation Immaturity

Author:Dervla Murphy

“This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller to his own age and sets him free to live in a past that is vital and crude but never ugly. Herat is as old as history and as moving as a great epic poem - if Afghanistan had nothing else it would have been worth coming to experience this.”

Ifs Has Beens Age Past Moving Cities Absolutes Ugly Afghanistan Epic Asia Literal Traveller Crude Binding Enchantment Epic Poems

Book:Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

“Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.”

Ifs Feels Home Cities Lord Europe Cures Heartache Vienna

Book:Women against men

Source: Women against men

“... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me, in that political thinking, the whole business, technical and personal, of politics, is not diluted by an equal interest in art, industry, amusement, anything you like. I don't meant that these are non-existent in Washington -- only that they are subdued to the ruling passion.”

Thinking Art Whole Political Passion Interest Cities Known Industry Equal Degrees Ruling Amusement Ruling Passion Political Thinking

Book:Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson

Source: Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson

“Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!”

Feels Firsts Death Mother Born Cities First Time Breaths Blessed Broke Strokes Chamber Crowded Seals Pestilence Bridal Crowded Cities

Book:Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

Source: Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

“In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.”

Cities Bears Divorce Bulls Bull Markets

Book:A Matter of Life and Death

Source: A Matter of Life and Death

“(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.”

Way Country Cities Majors Murder Rap Chicago

Book:The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition

Source: The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition

“The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.”

Men World Want May Lasts Individual Cities Existence Type Terror Characteristics Collectives End Of The World

Book:The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history

Source: The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history

“In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.”

People Thinking Cities Doors Fronts New York Areas New York City Taxi Cab Front Doors Great Outdoors Taxi Cabs

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.”

Cities Busy Suits Useless Queens Good Man Sixty Homosexuality Repression Respectability Veneer

Book:At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament

Source: At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament

“New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.”

Art Past Hours Challenges Cities Growing New York Accomplishment Relief Throwing Growing Old Throwing Away

Book:The Practice of Everyday Life

Source: The Practice of Everyday Life

“Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.”

Soul Cities Bird Towns Prison Beast Pounds Cages

Author:Pierre Charron

“[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.”

Knows Looks Beautiful Cities Unhappy Paris Unhappiness

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.”

Has Beens Earth Cities Hell Painting Canada Portraits Toronto Dullness Methodists Sanctimonious

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.”

Water Cities Passing Passings Venice Wondrous Carving Gondolas

Author:Sylvia Pankhurst

“Most gay, conversational, careless, lovely city ... where one drinks golden Tokay until one feels most beautiful, and warm and loved - oh, Budapesth!”

Feels Beautiful Cities Drink Gay Europe Warm Lovely Golden Careless

Author:Winifred Holtby

“I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.”

Art Beautiful Cities Wonderful Tradition Scotland Edinburgh Beautiful City

Author:Peter Hambleton

“A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la Cité.”

Years War Ends Cities Half Track Paris Islands Occupation Bruised Forlorn

Book:The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe

Source: The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe

“... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.”

Way Passion Force Cities Principles Modern Police Greek Unleashed Police Force Unleashing

Author:Caroline Gordon

“It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us-the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star-we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.”

May Children Made Ends Remember Moving Stars Stuff Cities Tree Bird Stones Substance My Children Beast Jungle Remember Me Overhead

Book:Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection

Source: Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection

“[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.”

World Humans Cities Careers Victim Destroyed Feds Rumor Fed Up Cholera Cities In The World

Author:Evelyn Anthony

“Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.”

Way Giving Cities Creative Ought Various Impulse Guarantees Climbs Horizon Continents Coast Glimpse Australian Manifold Beyond The Horizon

Author:Vance Palmer

“To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.”

Government Force Difficult Cities Activism Superiors Destructive Lasting Destroying Riot

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.”

May Two Ends Water Cities Four Sea Feet Century New York Higher Climate Climate Change Storm Rising New York City Coastal

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.”

Mind Book Home Lost Lines Cities Magic Example Pages Intellectual Originals Green Discrimination Owners Copies Bookstores Markers Browsing

Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.”

World Cities Streets New York New York City Above And Below

Book:But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery

Source: But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery

“There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.”

People Writing Matter Interest Cities Letters Police Satisfaction Stranger Newspapers Council Interest In Life City Council

Book:The Singing Sands

Source: The Singing Sands

“Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book you give them in response. It's an exquisite novel full of heart, soul, passion and intelligence, and it's the one this great New York author was born to write.”

Giving Writing Years Heart Children Book Soul Passion Asks Born Cities Novel New York Our Children Response Your Children New York City Exquisite

Author:Lee Child

“Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills.”

Looks Heart Littles Night Fall Cities Sun Spread Hills Rome Mist Creeps Gloomy Alleys Rooftops

Author:Caroline Llewellyn

“All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something that captivates me, I start turning around it to find MY OWN frame. I work on myself and on the city at the same time.”

My Own Emotion Cities Photograph Portraying

Author:Augusto De Luca

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