Cities Quotes

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.

Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

Everything is real, except Beika City

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night.

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

I never, in any city I've ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn't know the name of the next street over.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die

Montreal's not a city. It's a Disney World for alcoholics.

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.

I'm really just tryna bring it home for my city, I'm trying so hard to be the best I can be on every record I do, every feature I do and every different city I go to.

There’s no Democratic way to run a city and there’s no Republican way to run a city -- just the right way to run a city.

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.