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  • ...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees no symbol of itself in the cities. The inevitable result is a desolation whose practical effect is the total indifference of the big-city dweller to the destiny of his city.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Cities Quotes
  • All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Ohio Quotes , Cities Quotes
  • I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Cities Quotes , Design Quotes
  • Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
  • 3 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Life Quotes , Cities Quotes
  • It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Cities Quotes , Trying Quotes
  • The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Government Quotes , Cities Quotes
  • When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
  • 3 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cities Quotes , Community Quotes
  • The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Cities Quotes