Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
Any time there's a major change, whether it's going into a relationship, getting out of a relationship, moving to a new city, a death - that usually provides a catalyst for an explosion of creativity.
I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition.
Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
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.
I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.
You either choose to view America as the shining city on the hill that inspires the best in all mankind, or you don't.
Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all must he set at naught, that he may enter the Realm of the Spirit, which is the City of God.
New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Cities are not problems. They are solutions.
Oklahoma City bombing was done on purpose. Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system?
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
You go to some of these inner city places and it's so sad when you look at the crime. You have people - and I've seen this, and I've sort of witnessed it - in fact, in two cases I have actually witnessed it. They lock themselves into apartments, petrified to even leave, in the middle of the day.
Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.
Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.
Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.
I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
My city too turnt up, Ill take a fine for that.
I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.