Cities Quotes

New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.

When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

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

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.

Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

I think you can tell when a New York show isn't shot in the city. It's so iconic and has such a specific energy.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.

In Islamic theology, the phallic symbol is very important. Your biggest phallic symbol is New York City and your tallest building will be the phallic symbol they will hit.

I have long been in favor of states and cities within states making up their own minds whether or not they want to permit fracking. I have been supportive of that.

Never take an elevator in city hall.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement.

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

The critics don't build great cities

Pray five times a day for peace. Peace in your life, peace in your spirit, peace in your family, peace in your community, in your city but most importantly peace in this world.

Its unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.

New York is the last true city.

Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities will lose their glamour.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.

Don't let the wicked city get you down.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.

If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations.

Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

Zuckerberg wants to take us back to the dorm room where we all know each other. I don't want to, I want to go to the city.

What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.

I think different designers have different points of view and different strong personalities can influence the way certain cities are perceived.

Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .

To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to us, it becomes a once-in-a-lifetime experience.