City Center Quotes

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

Our first stop was red square, the heart of Moscow - if Moscow has one.

The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of the shopping center [as] a valid kind of downtown. That's taken over. It's very hard for architects of this generation even to think in terms of a downtown or a center that is owned by all different people, with different ideas.

I think we were instrumental in saving downtown Seattle. To me, that's the biggest thing we did.

Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.

We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

If there was a street synonymous with San Francisco, it's Market Street. It is the everyday backbone of the City, with hundreds of thousands of people traveling along it on foot, bike, bus, or streetcar. It's where we gather to celebrate our victories and protest injustices.

I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.

In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.

I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west side of town. It's a great urban area that has a lot to offer tourists.

Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1983 with a rock opera, 'Kilroy Was Here.'

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union Square.

St. Petersburg, under the czars, had been a grand city. It was a planned city, and it had - there were all these Parisian architects who had been brought in to build the apartment buildings in the center of town.

We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis, where our Christmas tree is lighted.

I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.

There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.