Livable City Quotes

#1. It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city 'livable' for you.

Stella Young

#2. Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.

Chief Seattle

#3. We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

Jens Jensen

#4. No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

Hannah Arendt

#5. I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

Ovid

#6. Keep working when grace abound.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.

Norman Foster

#8. I have a glove. I'll play anywhere.

Miguel Cabrera

#9. People are the same wherever you go. And if they weren't, they wouldn't laugh at the same s**t.

Chris Rock

#10. Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

Paul Wolfowitz

#11. More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

Michel De Certeau

#12. Functional prices are those that encourage the largest volume of production and the largest volume of sales. Functional wages are those that tend to bring about the highest volume of employment and the largest real payrolls.

Henry Hazlitt

#13. And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.

Sarah MacLean

#14. As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

Frank Ocean