Quotes by Cities If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for. Aldo Leopold nature cities house One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city Aldo Rossi architecture cities life 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. Aldo Rossi collective-memory cities memories Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown. Aldous Huxley los-angeles cities joy All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it. Aldous Huxley urbanization certain cities A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. Aldous Huxley able cities life-is New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign. Alec Baldwin stupidity cities new-york London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member. Alec Waugh clubs cities house Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart. Aleister Crowley cities heart country When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first emerged in city/states known now as Greece. This was coming from a society in which 30 thousand citizens had rights and 300 thousand were slaves and citizens without rights that lived in this territory. So that was the concept of western democracy; some citizens had the prerogative of exerting their civil and political rights while the others had none. Alejandro Castro Espin political cities rights I was a street kid, basically. But really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu real cities kids I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu mexico saws cities Mexico City is very different now than when I grew up, but I was in the streets all the time - though I was born to a middle-class neighborhood where there weren't a lot of gangs and things. I was always comfortable. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu different cities class And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live. Alejandro Jodorowsky escaping cities rivers I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul. Aleksandar Hemon geography soul cities I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I've dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys. Aleksandar Hemon cities play soccer Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation. Aleksandar Hemon space cities people I'll never forget my little city! I could talk a whole day about it! Alessandra Ambrosio never-forget cities littles There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it. Alex Ferguson cities winning inspirational At the last minute, from what I can gather, either Emmanuel Adebayor or his agent phoned us after they had agreed a deal with City and then did the same with Chelsea. He was desperate to get to either Chelsea or us. Alex Ferguson emmanuel cities inspirational «1234567891011»