Best cities & problem Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.”

Problem Dream Order Space Numbers Cities Fiction Technology Imagine Science Fiction Including New Technology

Author:Ray Bradbury

“And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.”

People Matter Problem Bigs Today Cities Streets Serious Horse Environmental Automobile Big Cities Environmental Problems

Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

“The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other.”

Ends Problem Social Effort Cities Modern Conditions Solutions Aids Portions Confined Settlement Great Cities Hull House

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm not anti-immigration; I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.”

Problem Bigs Culture Cities Millions Smart Bigger Immigration Immigrants Big Problems Very Smart

Author:Pim Fortuyn

“We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.”

People Ifs Should Problem Social Cities Worry Media Anxiety Social Media Mood Disorder Schizophrenic Mood Disorders

Author:Nick Harkaway

“These are economic issues that should get resolved. There are creative solutions to every problem. Hopefully between the lending institutions and the city, we'll be able to find creative solutions.”

Should Problem Able Cities Creativity Creative Issues Economic Solutions Institutions Hopefully Lending Economic Issues Creative Solutions

Author:Bob DuPuy

“Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.”

Feels States Problem Values Social Levels United Cities United States Economy Crime Example Violent Evident Admiring Inner City American Economy Violent Crimes Social Values

Author:Paul Ormerod

“When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens. I think that your people, when you save a place. But the problem is, then you see immigrants saving cities in Baltimore and you see 40 Korean groceries get burned down.”

Problem Cities Saving Immigrants Burned Groceries Korean Baltimore

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state... I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.”

People World Mean States Facts Problem Running Cities Fit Running Away Outsiders Indiana

Author:John Mellencamp

“The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.”

Men Problem Young Opportunity Cities Youth Solve Young Man Youngsters Unleashed

Author:Wes Moore

“We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable when you think about solving these problems. And we try to challenge those assumptions.”

Thinking Trying Problem Given Challenges Cities Groups Design Smart Research Fundamentals Assumption Mit

Author:William J. Mitchell

“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

“The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.”

Ends Country Problem Religious Cities Moral Awful Lifts Suggestions

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.”

People Ideas States Problem Government Cities Taken Blame Locals Immigrants County State Government Sheriffs

Author:Zack de la Rocha

“When the back-to-the-cities trend started taking root, albeit very unevenly, cities were so glad to finally land deals that they routinely overpaid, not having a solid grasp of the demographic and market forces they should have been channeling instead of subsidizing. It’s especially true for retail and entertainment projects, which generate very poor-quality jobs. I have yet to find a city that has figured out how to ‘take the foot off the pedal’ and stop over-subsidizing, even when gentrification becomes a problem.”

“Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial.”

Has Beens Problem America Political Social Views Cities Morning Society Media Mass Denial Paradise Psychologist Mass Media Social Problems Inner City

Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry

“Cities are not problems. They are solutions.”

Problem Cities Solutions

Author:Jaime Lerner

“Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.”

Problem Deals Cities Car Transport

Author:Jaime Lerner

“Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.”

People Problem Bigs Given Differences Cities Quality Difficulty Dues Paradise Latin Latin America Slums American Cities Latin American

Author:Jaime Lerner

“San Francisco is where gay fantasies come true, and the problem the city presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particular dreams to be fulfilled--or would we have preferred others? Did we know what price these dreams would exact? Did we anticipate the ways in which, vivid and continuous, they would unsuit us for the business of daily life? Or should our notion of daily life itself be transformed?”

Knows Way Should Problem Dream Wanted Cities Fantasy Particular Gay Notion Daily Life Transformed Fulfilled Vivid San Francisco Anticipate

Book:States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

Source: States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

“Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.”

Ifs Knows Humans Littles Enough Problem Human Beings Cities Wise Serious Poison Mask Toxic Cigarette Packs Filters Smokers Smog

Author:Ray Comfort

“How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?”

Wells Doe Problem Cities Mankind Sacred

Author:Willi Unsoeld

“We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'”

Ifs Said Problem Next Chance Cities Mouths Tragedy Branding Chances Are Bombing Oklahoma Branded Oklahoma City

Author:Mick Cornett

“Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been fortunate so far. But we have seen that when winds fail to blow, the concentrations of poisonous clouds over our cities can become perilous.”

People Has Beens Problem Cities Failing Air Wind Environmental Clouds Blow Fortunate Concentration Pollution Conservation Urgent Poisonous

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“The problems with conventional parking meters are myriad. Nevertheless, two advanced technologies, multispace parking meters and curb-space occupancy sensors, can make it much easier for users to pay for curb parking, and for cities to adjust prices to meet the demand.”

Two Problem Space Pay Cities Technology Easier Demand Users Conventional Nevertheless Parking Meter Curb Advanced Technology Sensors Parking Meters

Author:Donald Shoup

“For He hath prepared for them a City! Hallelujah? He's got a City for you & me where you're not going to have any passport nor visa problems, they're not going to have to make sure you've got enough money to stay there awhile, it's YOUR town, your Hometown in Heaven, praise God? And they're all going to be your people! We're just going to be one nationality of one nation, ...we just haven't found the place yet, we haven't gotten there yet!”

People Enough Problem Found Heaven Nations Cities Havens Towns Praise Prepared Heavenly Nationality Hometown Passports Visa Praise God Hallelujah Our Town

Author:David Berg

“My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but you have to also take writing jobs, which means less stage time.”

Writing Mean Problem Jobs Cities Stage New York Comedian New York City

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“A new study shows that the child population in San Francisco is dwindling and in fact San Francisco has the smallest share of children of any major city in the United States. That's odd, huh? For some reason couples in San Francisco don't seem to be reproducing as much as couples in other cities. Gee, I wonder what the problem is there? You think it might be something in the Rice-A-Roni?”

Thinking Children States Reason Facts Shows Problem Seems Might United Cities Wonder United States Study Share Couple Majors Population Odd Smallest San Francisco Rice Reproducing

Author:Jay Leno

“Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.”

Problem Cities Morality Gun Inner City

Author:Barack Obama

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