Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Cells Quotes, Cities Quotes

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

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A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

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I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

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And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens.

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I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

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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.

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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

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You have been the last dream of my soul.

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If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

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Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

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I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as dry as the corner of a heated living room.

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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

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I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

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Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

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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.

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