Urban-Quotes - The best Quotes about the City

A city is a concrete labyrinth in which our mind is lost.

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Logic is no answer to passion.

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

"Size is no guarantee of power," said George. "Look at Ginny."

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

The Lord doesn't price the size of things as much as the love with which they were done.

Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?

I want to tell you about someone you remind me of a great deal. His name was Yoda. He was small like you, but his heart was huge. And the Force was strong in him. He once said to me, "Size matters not."

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Want an animal to stare at you with contempt? Get a cat! Open box of excrement in your house? Cat!

My cat is really annoyed by me, now that I hang around in her apartment all day.

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Cats can use their ears to express their feelings. If they flatten them backwards, it indicates fear or caution, and if their ears are perked up and occasionally face forward, that usually means they're happy. Constant swiveling indicates that they are vigilantly assessing their surroundings.

Cats will outsmart dogs every time.