19 Skyscrapers Quotes for You to Enjoy

Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers. Gretchen Rubin

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There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories. Bobby Heenan

You See Area Did Stories Skyscrapers Downtown Two

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Federico Garcia Lorca

Battle Nothing More Poetic Terrible Cover Than Heavens Them Skyscrapers

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers. Bryan Adams

Time You Three Go Away Every Changed Every Time Back Month Vancouver More Come How How Much Amazed Go Much Skyscrapers Away

Seoul and Shanghai, Jaipur and Jakarta; shining skyscrapers, pricey hotels, traffic-jammed streets ablaze with neon - all were built atop a foundation of laboratory-bred rice. Charles C. Mann

Shanghai Hotels Built Were Shining Rice Skyscrapers Foundation Streets

People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxis and the bright lights of Times Square. And it is that, in part. But beyond that, it's rolling hills of fruit orchards and fields of grain and ice-cold waters brimming with oysters. Daniel Humm

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Mongolia is a country of only three million souls. One million of them live in Ulaanbaatar, where, despite the skyscrapers, half the population sleep in tents. One of the few Mongolians to become famous outside his home country is Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, who won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World prize. David Hepworth

Home World Three Country Half Become Few Live Despite Only Outside Singer Souls His Won Prize Famous Where Them Who Skyscrapers Population Million Sleep

I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers. Jack McBrayer

People Wave Shake Tourist New Like Around Still Up Walking Hands York New York Ladies Help Skyscrapers Staring

If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street. Joseph Rykwert

You Enormous Haven Entrance Look Welcoming Halls Were Off Very Spaces Public Display Skyscrapers Marble Street Amount

We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums. Li Keqiang

Side Slums Skyscrapers

The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness. Ma Yansong

I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out. Michael Winter

You Writing Win Looking Paper Out Bad Through Mercenary Venture How Literary Story Stands Skyscrapers Awards Now

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Illusion Moon City Seems Lots Than Any Bigger Skyline Skyscrapers

As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me. Robert Osborne

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The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence. Stephen Hough

Daily Stars Unnecessary Glitter Decadence Skyscrapers Competing

This is supposed to be the Big Apple, with neighborhoods where the houses are all good-looking and the skyscrapers and everything. But to me, New York is kind of shoddy and uncomfortable. William Klein

Me Big Everything Neighborhoods Kind Uncomfortable Good-Looking New Supposed Houses Shoddy York New York Where Skyscrapers Apple

Hong Kong might be a small place, but its people make it unique. The iconic images of skyscrapers in this bustling metropolis are famous around the world, but it is the people of Hong Kong, standing up for their city on the streets, who make it truly great. Joshua Wong

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