2,405 Quotes About Cities

  • Author Felix de Weldon
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    Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

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  • Author Frank Lloyd Wright
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    The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

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  • Author Frances Wright
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    I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.

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  • Author Fay Weldon
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    Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.

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  • Author Fred Wilson
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    The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

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  • Author Geoffrey West
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    Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from.

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  • Author Geoffrey West
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    You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.

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