The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.
- Genghis Khan
And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
- Pablo Neruda
Dhaka the city of mosques has become the city of Hindu temples.
- Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.
- Jane Jacobs
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
- Le Corbusier
Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves.
- Jan Gehl
There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.
Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.
Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West.
- Susan Moody
A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.
- Louis Kahn
This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.
The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
- Karl Kraus
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
- John Green
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?
- Attila the Hun
One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city
- Aldo Rossi
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.
One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
- Alexander Graham Bell
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.
- John Knox
Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.
One time there was a student at Punjab University in Lahore who came down with cancer and his friend came to me for help. I stood outside on the street in Lahore and asked the people in that city for help. Within four or five hours, I received more than 40 million rupees [more than US $670,000].
- Abdul Sattar Edhi
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
- Joseph McCarthy
And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.
- Alex Jones
One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.
- Al-Farabi
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.
- H. P. Lovecraft
A good city is like a good party. People don't want to leave early.
My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.
- Raul Castro
Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.
- Li Keqiang
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
- James Weldon Johnson
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
- Christopher Morley
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
- Adam Smith
The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.
Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.
- Steve Yzerman
The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility to you take a modicum of responsibility for you.
You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...
- Jamie Farr
An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.
Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.
- Frederic Chopin
All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
- Oscar Wilde
Seek refuge in Mary because she is the city of refuge. We know that Moses set up three cities of refuge for anyone who inadvertently killed his neighbor. Now the Lord has established a refuge of mercy, Mary, even for those who deliberately commit evil. Mary provides shelter and strength for the sinner.
- Anthony of Padua
City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
- Henry David Thoreau
What I'd like to have right now is for all you fat, out of shape, (insert city) sweathogs to keep the noise down while I take my robe off and show all the ladies what a real man is supposed to look like.
- Rick Rude
Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.
