Cities Quotes
Cities Quote of the day
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: "Yes: the little one does."
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?
When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.
Jesus Christ lives in all people. We are citizens of one world.
When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.
I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.
The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)
Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve
There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!
Some places will, however, be left behind. Not every city will succeed, because not every city has been adept at adapting to the age of information, in which ideas are the ultimate creator of wealth.
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
When we can't get away for a vacation we get the same feeling by staying home and tipping every person that smiles.
This summer one-third of the nation will be ill-housed ill-nourished and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.
My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away as long as I'm not enjoying it.
On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.
There's a lot of nice things about Denver. I just don't for the life of me know what they are.
The people of Seattle deny they get much rain while the rest of the country thinks of it as America's bladder.
You're already dead inside. Years of living in Espoo have made you an empty husk of a human being. They don't call their hockey team the "Espoo Blues" for nothing.
In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.
I hate Billings Montana. They have a fashion show at Sears Roebuck - no models. You open a catalog and point.
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.
After years of mocking L.A. for its smog the people of Denver are now coughing out of the other side of their mouths.
There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35 000 a year. Obviously that doesn't include food or lodging.
I lived in Miami for a while in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead.
I have no respect for gangs today. None. They just drive by and shoot people. At least in the old days like in West Side Story the gangs used to dance with each other.
Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had.
A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
