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Letter "C" » city
«Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.»
Author: Eliel Saarinen
(Architect)
| Keywords:
by design, chair, Chairing, city, Considering, context, design, designing, environment, Environments, house, In Context, larger, next, plan, room, rooming house, The Chair, The Chairs
«A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason»
Author: Hugo Grotius
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
city, family, family man, govern, passions, subject, subject to
«If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you.»
«But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
began, chime, chimed, chimes, city, clocks, deceive, In the City, The City, The Clocks, whirr
«He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city»
Author: Bible
| About:
Anger
| Keywords:
city, good spirit, in good spirits, mighty, slow, The Mighty
«A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
city, confounded, confounding, confounds, most populous, populous
«As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Big cities, Big City, city, desert, nowadays, remedy, suggest, the Big
«Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abolish, abolishes, abolishing, accumulation, accumulations, city, Creation, Death itself, destroys, horror, ideal, mere, million, multiply, One In A Million, parasite, rear, rearing, rears, swelled, swell up, swollen, throws
«City life is millions of people being lonesome together.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
city, lonesome, millions, together
«[San Francisco] . . . the city that never was a town.»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
city, Francisco, San, San Francisco, The City, The San, town, Town of
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