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Like a man who has been dying for many days a man in your city is numb to the stench. Chief Seattle Cities 184
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody only because and only when they are created by everybody. Jane Jacobs Cities 147
Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself. Charlie LeDuff Cities 79
Yet once youve come to be part of this particular patch youll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real. Nelson Algren Cities 79
But cities arent like people they live on and on even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea. John Updike Cities 78
Note for Americans and other aliens Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern efficient healthy and all in all a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing. Neil Gaiman Cities 74
By its nature the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling namely the strange. Jane Jacobs Cities 69
Cities are made for enemies to destroy. Will Oldham Cities 66
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from AnkhMorpork City of Cities illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or at least people setting fire to things. Terry Pratchett Cities 65
So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see. Alice Cooper Cities 61
We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together. John Hickenlooper Cities 57
For those who are lost there will always be cities that feel like home. Simon Van Booy Cities 57
Cities must be fun. James Rouse Cities 55
By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities. Harrison Salisbury Cities 53
It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas and cultural energies are regarded as corrupt one or another kind of pornography. This is how it is with towns. Don DeLillo Cities 47
I am not interested in living in a city where there isnt a production by Samuel Beckett running. Edward Albee Cities 46
There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection. Paul Getty Cities 45
Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles not by people in themselves. Jane Jacobs Cities 45
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by shortterm notes containing a fool and his wife who didnt know enough to stay in the city. S.J. Perelman Cities 45
I love New York even though it isnt mine the way something has to be a tree or a street or a house something anyway that belongs to me because I belong to it. Truman Capote Cities 45
Cities were built to measure time to remove time from nature. Theres an endless counting down he said. When you strip away all the surfaces when you see into it whats left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. Don DeLillo Cities 44
...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate crossuse that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood. Jane Jacobs Cities 42
To be far from the madding crowd is to be mad indeed. A.E. Coppard Cities 41
Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. William Gibson Cities 40
London is on the whole the most possible form of life. Henry James Cities 39
I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power. Gaylord Nelson Cities 38
You cant love a city if you have no memories burried there. Marina Tavares Dias Cities 38
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe. Jose C. Orozco Cities 37
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination through mental choices making artifice not through physical reproduction. A. Bartlett Giamatti Cities 37
I love being in cities with lots of other people because Im reminded that there are billions of people like me and we are each stuck inside of our minds feverishly trying to crawl out to make connections with other people. John Green Cities 36
London opens to you like a novel itself. ... It is divided into chapters the chapters into scenes the scenes into sentences it opens to you like a series of rooms door passsage door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand. Anna Quindlen Cities 36
People dont live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just same way. Ian McNulty Cities 35
Each new Clarice compact as a living body with its smells and its breath shows off like a gem what remains of the ancient Clarices fragmentary and dead. Italo Calvino Cities 34
The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square. Anna Quindlen Cities 34
A borderthe perimeter of a single massive or stretchedout use of territoryforms the edge of an area of ordinary city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects or matteroffactly just as edges. However a border exerts an active influence. Jane Jacobs Cities 34
A city that outdistances mans walking powers is a trap for man. Arnold Toynbee Cities 34
The citys full of people who you just see around. Terry Pratchett Cities 33
People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people. Rachel Griffiths Cities 33
We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public. Tipper Gore Cities 33
Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm. Jo Bonner Cities 32
Mind you Thunder Bay has a lot of outskirts. Its actually two cities melded together so in a sense it has twice as many outskirts as other places. Its understandable that we got lost.... Paul Quarrington Cities 32
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of conceptscensus tracts special purpose bondissue districts shopping nuclei all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway. Thomas Pynchon Cities 32
Dull inert cities it is true do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively diverse intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves. Jane Jacobs Cities 31
Spend twenty years there and you ask yourself how there can still be strangers with so many familiar faces ... its probably that cities generate strangers continuously ... Frederik Peeters Cities 29
In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature with specific local characteristics. Sally A. Kitt Chappell Cities 29
We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form. Sally Ride Cities 29
I tis hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Expressways and their ramps are examples. Moreover even in the case of large parks campuses or waterfronts the barrier effects can likely be overcome well only along portions of perimeters. Jane Jacobs Cities 29
But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out. Louis Farrakhan Cities 28
Eventually there are going to be cities in space. Alan Bean Cities 28
Nature made the fields and man the cities. Marcus Terentius Varro Cities 28

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