2,405 Quotes About Cities

Yerevan is hype. Tbilisi is talk. Baku is work.

When we build a city, we take our grandest dreams as well as our deepest anxieties and set them in concrete for the next generation.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stations We crossed cities that turn-tabled all dayAnd vomited at night the sunshine of the day ("The Voyager")

Privacy is precious in cities. It is indispensable. Perhaps it is precious and indispensable everywhere, but in most places you cannot get it. In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not—only those you choose to tell will know much about you.

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

To be far from the madding crowd is to be mad indeed.

The city is physical, concrete," Pedro [da Luz] said. "When we make a mistake, it is a mistake that will last for forty, fifty years. That's a problem.

If we act in clean way, we shall clear the city of any dirt.