Rudyard Kipling Quotes

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

Citties are taken by the eares.

The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that.

It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.

It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.

I want to become Kiev's mayor because I love my city very much and want to improve life in it.

Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it.

As an actor, I think it is my responsibility to hold a mirror to the society.

I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.

I took over a city that had two riots in four years and I had none. And they knew they couldn't riot on me. And when I saw the people on the street in New York City, I said to myself, you're breaking Giuliani's rules. You don't take my streets. You can have my sidewalks, but you don't take my streets, because ambulances have to get through there, fire trucks have to get through there.

I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.

They should've built a city on rock and roll.

If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.

Let's have Michael Bloomberg run the whole thing. Did a great job on this stuff in New York. If you want to spend at least what we already are on the poor but actually get results, go for it!

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.

New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced by the artificiality of their environment.