City Quotes

City 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.

We'll start to forget a place once we left it

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.

The people are the city.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

What is the city but the people?

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

New York is a sucked orange.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Respectable Protestant denominations retreated inside...leaving...unaffiliated madwomen to evangelize alfresco...

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.

New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.

So? I know lots of beautiful women. Nova wanted to chase... I merely obliged her by running.

My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.

Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes.

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.

New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.

when we're done, I'll be where the night never stopscradling a bruise that's shaped like youwondering why sleep never came to mewondering how I still dreamed

But you’re out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.

No matter how tired I was, I always felt more awake when I walked.