
“The need of the city is to accelerate growth; the pride of the small town is to retard it.”
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Cited in: SanSan Kwan, Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces, 2013 p. xxx; Talking about Shanghai
Text originate from a French-made documentary, where "Jin herself associated her (definitely female) identity with the city" of Shanghai.
“The need of the city is to accelerate growth; the pride of the small town is to retard it.”
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
royalcorrespondent.com interview http://royalcorrespondent.com/2013/07/15/we-really-are-a-team-says-princess-madeleine-in-a-new-interview/
HRH Princess Marie of Denmark interview, Royal Monaco Journal (December 30, 2011)
version in original Dutch (citaat van Breitner's brief, in het Nederlands:) Gisteren was ik nog even in Rotterdam.. ..'t is toch een mooie stad. Altijd woelig, smerig en schilderachtig, vooral de vest en de havenbuurten, voor 't nieuwe gedeelte geef ik geen duit.
Quote from Breitner's letter to A. P. van Stolk, The Hague, 8 Febr. 1882; as cited in Breitner en Parijs' – master-thesis 9928758 https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/8382], by Jacobine Wieringa, Faculty of Humanities Theses, Utrecht, (translation from the original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek), p. 10
before 1890
“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.”
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989), Farewell Address (1989)