Great Cities Quotes - Page 4

• En la gran ciudad de San Francisco, donde yo vivía, a las dos de la mañana en una de cada dos casas victorianas hay alguien que está escribiendo la gran novela americana. Y la ciudad no está repleta de James Joyces o Virginia Woolfs. Pero el espíritu empresarial es una visión distorsionada de la realidad.

  Tom Peters

  Morning, Business, Writing

  "The Peters Principles". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

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• A la vuelta de la esquina tengo un amigo, en esta gran ciudad que no tiene fin.

  Charles Hanson Towne

  Friends, Cities, Corners

  Charles Hanson Towne (1919). “A World of Windows: And Other Poems”

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• No es una locura decir
  que caeréis, grandes ciudades.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fall, Cities, Madness

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

  Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

  Men, Cities, Solitude

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• Durante aquellos meses cruciales se produjo un precario equilibrio entre composición y descomposición: lo que el mundo ganó y lo que una gran ciudad perdió. Incluso entonces, una parte de Detroit estaba muriendo, y ahí es donde empieza la historia.

  David Maraniss

  Cities, Balance, Dying

  David Maraniss (2016). “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• No en esta forma específica. Pero todas las grandes ciudades están habitadas por fantasmas. Probablemente podría escribir un libro de este tipo sobre Yakarta, Manila o Londres cualquiera que sintiera las verdades invisibles de esos lugares.

  Teju Cole

  Libro, Ciudades, Sentimientos

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Toda urbanización, llevada más allá de cierto punto, se convierte automáticamente en suburbanización.... Toda gran ciudad no es más que un conjunto de suburbios. Sus habitantes no viven en su ciudad, sólo la habitan.

  Aldous Huxley

  Urbanization, Cities, Certain

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• A great city is a great solitude.

  Hermione Gingold

  Cities, Solitude

  Hermione Gingold (1963). “Sirens Should be Seen and Not Heard”

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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.

  Ilka Chase

  Children, Real, Long Ago

  Ilka Chase (1967). “Fresh from the Laundry”

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• Some people don't have an open mind, and when I was traveling to different places I think I found it hard to enjoy things. You know, I come from a great city where there are lots of things happening, and if you end up in a small town where you don't have all those things you can feel the difference. Somewhere along the way, though, I think I learned to appreciate the difference.

  Logan Lerman

  Thinking, Cities, Differences

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.

  Peter Capaldi

  Art, Cities, Scotland

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• To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be around that many people that were at the same point in their lives, who played guitar or whatever instrument - it was just perfect. It was a great environment.

  John Petrucci

  Kids, College, Guitar

  Fuente: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spring, Cities, Magic

  Discurso en la Convención Nacional Demócrata, Chicago, 1896, en "The First Battle. A Story of the Campaign of 1896" (1896) vol. 1, cap. 10.

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• The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.

  Lewis Mumford

  Memories, Men, Cities

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• The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Cities, Support

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.86, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

  Rory Bremner

  Cities, Voice, Tables

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• ¿Sabes lo que dijo Agelisas, cuando le preguntaron por qué la gran ciudad de Lacedomonie no estaba ceñida de murallas? Porque, señalando a los habitantes y ciudadanos de la ciudad, tan expertos en disciplina militar y tan fuertes y bien armados: "Aquí", dijo, "están las murallas de la ciudad", queriendo decir que no hay más muralla que la de los huesos, y que los pueblos y ciudades no pueden tener muralla más segura ni más fuerte que la virtud de sus ciudadanos y habitantes.

  François Rabelais

  Fuerte, Muro, Militar

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• Una gran ciudad puede verse como la construcción de palabras además de piedra.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Cities, May, Stones

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• Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

  Charles Roven

  Cities, Chicago, Different

  Fuente: collider.com

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• A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Drama, Cities, Fantasy

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• We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

  Jane Austen

  Pregnancy, Cities, Looks

  "The Complete Novels".

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• The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Cities, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Poems by Walt Whitman”, p.74, Read Books Ltd

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• Veo la cara de un niño. Vive en una gran ciudad. Es negro. O es blanco. Es mexicano, italiano, polaco. Nada de eso importa. Lo que importa es que es un niño americano.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Children, Italian, What Matters

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• We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Cities, Balance, Needs

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• I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Men, Cities

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.311

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