Quotes About European Cities

#1. Post-Christian societies are cultures where the Christian worldview was once the dominant worldview. Many European cities were once known for having a thriving Christian influence and a population that largely subscribed to the central tenets of Christian orthodoxy. Take

Stephen T. Um

#2. A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

Jerzy Kosinski

#3. Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.

Rem Koolhaas

#4. I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.

David Byrne

#5. The quality of life of European cities and towns of almost any size make life in America look not just like a joke, but a sick joke, a horror movie. But I'd rather stay involved and do what I can to make this a better place than move to the south of France and enjoy the good life.

James Howard Kunstler

#6. Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

Timothy Garton Ash

#7. When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.

Sam Kean

#8. [Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.

John Gunther

#9. The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#10. I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

Iman

#11. Without action, you aren't going anywhere.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.

Hamilton Leithauser

#13. Being in all of my relationships, I'm even more confused than I've ever been, I don't know if you ever really understand relationships.

Jamie Kennedy

#14. Join the club.
(to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Man City a European place)

Stuart Pearce

#15. If you feel something should be changed, start the change with your thoughts and mind-set. Cause you may not change the surroundings but your thoughts will...

-Giridhar Alwar

Giridhar Alwar

#16. When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound.

Jane Horrocks

#17. The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

Bill Bowerman

#18. In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.

Julian Barnes

#20. What are you doing, Dave?

Arthur C. Clarke

#21. Talk of Power and Might would always attract an audience. Lords never went out of fashion.

Clive Barker

#22. Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.

Neil Strauss

#23. San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

Cecil Beaton

#24. To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.

George Steiner

#25. But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.

James Henry Breasted

#26. A similar statement appears in the US Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (European War) (30 September 1945): The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

George C. Marshall

#27. The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

Morarji Desai

#28. Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Judith Butler