Zaha Hadid Quotes

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people - the Art Museum and a world class symphony that's still world class.

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.

I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be.

Civilizations are a matter of the mind.

Generations of tradition and hard work are required to form a nation of traders.

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.

History is not the past. History is the present. We carry our history with us.

I really see Compton as a place with a lot of opportunity. It has a rich history, a strong community that has a strong sense of pride.

I want to put Sacramento back on the map.

Cleveland's a great city. I love the city. The people here are awesome. They're loyal and hard-working, and they're loyal to our sports scene, and things are changing here.

There've been lots of positive changes in the city since I worked at Salford Tech in the seventies, and I'm pleased to be known as Salford's Bard and to have helped put it on the map.

I grew up in Beijing, and there weren't many modern buildings during my childhood. I was influenced by traditional culture - the courtyards, the hutongs, the old city, and all the art forms - so, very naturally, I brought this to my practice.

People think that being Korean is all one thing.

With Hurricane Katrina and all that kind of stuff happening, you needed somebody to rally for your city, to tell that story. Since Hurricane Katrina, we didn't really have nobody that said, 'I'm gonna tell New Orleans' story, and I'm gonna stick to New Orleans.'

That's the beauty of Mumbai. While some parts have grown rapidly, there are places like Churchgate that have retained their character.

I still feel very Scottish.

Having grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it.

We are extraordinarily lucky in the U.K. to have inherited a diverse range of cities that bear the imprints of many centuries of human habitation.

It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs