Cities Quotes

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.

Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America.

There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood.

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.

Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.

People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

I had a good friend in New York City.

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

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

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.

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

Transformed people transform cities.

If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully interesting!

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.

Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.

In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be projected and, yes, of course artists can be and are influenced by politicians.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.

If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.