Greek Proverb Quotes

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

Citizens are not born. They are raised.

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

We offer them Roman citizenship in order to make them more desirous of living in the city and to induce others to do so.

what I love about city government is that the citizens can create whatever kind of city they're willing to build.

Having been a mayor, we prioritized based on where we want our city and our country to go.

I won't be a perfect mayor, but I will be the mayor of a great city.

I know what it takes to move cities forward. It's not about rhetoric and great speaking, but it takes relationships.

We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

We believe... that by encouraging critical thinking and processing of knowledge we are creating full, well-rounded human beings... that will enable Qatar to build up its society. You cannot build a healthy society without giving your citizens a sense of ownership. Otherwise, they will not share with you the responsibilities.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

You either have a civil society or you don't.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.