Cities Quotes

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

Through that windshield I saw a city that didn’t know it was hungry and a reflection of a guy who was FREE.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.

Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post.

San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.

American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

If you sit around and wring your hands as they're all doing now until something happens to a major American city, then it is too late.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to be present.

The beauty of any city is really the people within it and the people that you're close to.

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

Blessed the one who, exalted by love, has become a city founded upon a mountain, from which the enemy, when he saw it, withdrew in fear, trembling at its security in the Lord.

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out where you fit in even when you find your little niche.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.

I always enjoy Oslo. It's a beautiful city, especially on a cold winter day.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.

Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.

Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

Would your city weep if your church did not exist?

There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.

There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open.

Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out.