#cities

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. ↗

— David Guterson

#i #me #melancholy #need #produce

First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities. ↗

— Bobby Hull

#along #always #back #charities #cities

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#cities #danger #goes #life #lost

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship -- around participation in public life. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#page- #design

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#american cities #assistance #call #cannot #cities

Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington. ↗

— Lou Barletta

#burden #cities #crying #illegal #illegal immigration

I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to - although they will acknowledge that the cities are completely different from each other - I think they still handle it as being one territory. ↗

— Sean Booth

#although #america #being #cities #completely

But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#ancestors #broad #cities #civilization #efforts

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. ↗

— James Buchan

#altogether #between #both #cities #distinction