Great Cities Quotes - Page 5

• Una gran ciudad, cuya imagen habita en la memoria del hombre, es el tipo de alguna gran idea. Roma representa la conquista; la Fe se cierne sobre las torres de Jerusalén; y Atenas encarna la cualidad preeminente del mundo antiguo, el Arte.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Arte, Recuerdos, Hombres

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). "Coningsby, etc", p.113

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• As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

  Billy Corgan

  Winning, Cities, Organization

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• They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.

  Salman Rushdie

  Destiny, Cities, Crowds

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

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• The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

  David Berg

  Garden, Cities, Pyramids

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• El uso del petróleo refinado como combustible, que comenzó en la década de 1850, liberó a cientos de millones de personas del trabajo penoso de siglos, dio a otros cientos de millones una vida de facilidad y abundancia y, al permitir a las grandes ciudades alimentarse de todos los rincones del mundo, multiplicó por cinco la población de la Tierra.

  James Buchan

  Ciudades, Gente, Trabajo

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• I miss Seattle a lot. It was my first city that I lived in on my own. It was a great city to play for. It was unfortunate for the fans what happened, but it’s time to move on. I’m sure they’ve moved on. But in the back of my mind, I still have a thing for Seattle and always am going to remember what they’ve done for me.

  Kevin Durant

  Moving, Play, Cities

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• Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Cities, Imagination, Quality

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.133, Penguin

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• We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, starts fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fall, Thinking, Sea

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1035, Bantam

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• Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Artist, Thinking

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• We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city of Samarkand, whose crumbling palaces and mosques still welcome travelers on the Silk road. Weary of cities? Then we’ll take to the wilds. To the islands of Hawaii and the mountains of Japan, to forests where Civil War dead still lie, and stretches of sea no mariner ever crossed. They all have their poetry: the glittering cities and the ruined, the watery wastes and the dusty; I want to show you them all. I want to show you everything.

  Clive Barker

  New York, War, Lying

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Yield, Cities, Temptation

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.29, Booklassic

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• There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.

  Dawn Powell

  New York, Home, Cities

  Dawn Powell (2001). “Novels, 1930-1942”

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• What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eye, Cities, Monsters

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• Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Rome, Hands, Cities

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.80, A&C Black

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• To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation.

  Michel de Certeau

  Moving, Practice, Cities

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• Participar de algún modo en el renacimiento de una de las grandes ciudades del mundo es, por defecto, vivir una existencia con sentido.

  Chris Rose

  Significado, Nueva Orleans, Ciudades

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• Un hecho maravilloso sobre el que reflexionar, que cada criatura humana está constituida para ser ese profundo secreto y misterio para todas las demás. Una solemne consideración, cuando entro en una gran ciudad por la noche, que cada una de esas casas oscuramente agrupadas encierra su propio secreto; que cada habitación en cada una de ellas encierra su propio secreto; que cada corazón que late en los cientos de miles de pechos allí, es, en algunas de sus imaginaciones, un secreto para el corazón más cercano a él.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Night, Cities

  Historia de dos ciudades bk. 1, cap. 3 (1859)

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• I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

  Eli Broad

  Cities, Needs

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• For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money.

  Greg Oden

  Cities, African American, Portland

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• Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Vegetarianism, Land

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.665, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

  Cate Blanchett

  Cities, Different, Common

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• Una ciudad siempre contiene más de lo que cualquier habitante puede saber, y una gran ciudad siempre hace de lo desconocido y lo posible acicates para la imaginación.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Cities, Imagination, Spurs

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.133, Penguin

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• I go down the street, I say hello to everybody, a stranger or otherwise. I know that they do not know me, but I like to say hello and I think they appreciate it. I notice their faces light up with a smile and I believe that if all the people in our great city...would do that, the whole world would begin to say it is the "Friendly City." You can do a tremendous thing here. We get so absorbed, we do not always speak to our friends. Speak to them, even strangers, you are not going to give offense.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Friendship, Believe, Thinking

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• El trato que la sociedad moderna dispensa a la inmensa mayoría de los pobres es verdaderamente escandaloso. Se les hacina en las grandes ciudades, donde respiran un aire más viciado que en el campo que han abandonado.

  Friedrich Engels

  Air, Cities, Way

  Friedrich Engels (1958). “The condition of the working class in England”

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• New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.

  John Gregory Dunne

  New York, Congratulations, Self

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