Cities Quotes
Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.
I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
I love Chicago. I know Chicago. And Chicago is a great city. It can be a great city. It can't be a great city if people are shot walking down the street for a loaf of bread.
The three drunkest cities in America: Fresno, Riverside, and whatever Mel Gibson is driving through.
I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
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.
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 is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.
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.
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.
I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.
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.
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.
The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.
The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards.
As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He commanded us to build our own city on a hill.
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.
It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.
The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.
