Quotes About City Squares

#1. Don't bother with churches, government buildings or city squares, if you want to know about a culture, spend a night in its bars

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. City squares are planned absences - they're defined, first of all, by what they're not [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"].

Catie Marron

#3. Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.

Anatoly Karpov

#4. Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity ...

Louis Aragon

#5. The columbine and iris bowed down to make way for bolder sprays of red valerian, and a mingled profusion of clustered Canterbury bells and sweet william, pale blues and pinks intertwined, danced at the feet of more stately spears of deep-purple foxglove and monkshood.

Susanna Kearsley

#6. And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there ... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound

#7. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

George Washington

#8. The Things That Matter convincingly lays out Nate Berkus's philosophy that things do matter. Our homes tell our stories, they reflect the places we've been and the people we've loved along the way - and there can be no more beautiful design for living than that.

Nate Berkus

#9. The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

John Ruskin

#10. Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#11. But unless Western populations can rise to the level of Egyptians they're going to remain victims.

Noam Chomsky

#12. We had a great time making 'Chennai Express.' It was a learning experience working with Shah Rukh ... it was a positive experience.

Rohit Shetty

#13. We should use discernment to connect dots, avoid traps, and make wise judgments without becoming too judgmental, suspicious, and faultfinders.

Assegid Habtewold

#14. In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

Aristotle.

#15. Security here in New York City is still very tight. Hookers in Times Square now are demanding two forms of fake ID.

David Letterman

#16. This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Hernan Cortes

#17. When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been.

Norman Foster

#18. Our shows today are better and funnier than they've ever been.

Dick Smothers

#19. Your mother never would have spoken to me in such a fashion.'
'I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the tone of my voice doesn't change the truth.

Eloisa James

#20. Yes, I remember the bombings. Yes, I remember, because - yes, I remember being in air raid shelters. Even though I was evacuated because I was very young, I remember being in air raid shelters and the tremendous feeling of compatibility with everybody.

Joan Collins

#21. I like to work out every day, so that takes up some time.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#22. People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.

Elliott Abrams