Cities Quotes

Every city is a living body.

— Saint Augustine

City wits, country humorists.

— Mason Cooley

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Fighting men are the city's fortress

— Alcaeus

Berlin is my favourite city.

— Logan Lerman

“Big cities can have big hearts.”

— Mary Elise Monsell

I love New York City.

— Li Na

New York City is my playground.

— Bethenny Frankel

My city too turnt up, Ill take a fine for that.

— Masai Ujiri

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

— Augustus

A City that parlies is half gotten. [A city that parleys is half gotten.]

— George Herbert

Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.

— Thomas Menino

Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.

— Julian Green

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.

— Ivan Chtcheglov

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

— Yehuda Amichai

When I became mayor, the city was in tough financial straits.

— Ken Boshcoff

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are…

— LeBron James

I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of…

— Nolan Gould

It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to…

— Bob Cousy

I don't like L.A. I've always said that, and people hate on me for it. I don't really like the city.

— Shenae Grimes

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

— Brent Weeks

Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities.

— Kimbal Musk

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century…

— Sadiq Khan

The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but…

— Dick Cheney

To one who has been long in city pent, ’Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven,…

— Anonymous

They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in…

— Donna Tartt

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in…

— Erin Cummings

I love Portland. I think it's one of the best cities - I obviously haven't been to very many places, but I…

— Mia Wasikowska

The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the…

— Allen Ginsberg

I belong to the Kingdom of God, that's my Country! I'm from Space City, that's my City! I'm from the City that…

— David Berg

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly…

— Remy de Gourmont

Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls,…

— James Howard Kunstler

It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It…

— Oswald Spengler

I'm from New York. I grew up there. I grew up in Westchester County, the suburbs. For me, that was always the…

— Guillermo E. Brown

Although his playing career with the Broncos took place before my time with the team, I am well aware of what Floyd…

— Pat Bowlen

Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as…

— Zack de la Rocha

For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their…

— David Mitchell

It is hard not to be inspired when you're living in New York. It doesn't matter what you do. I think that…

— Diego Klattenhoff

Here in Russia,, in many cities, people are irritated by Caucasian intrusion. Caucasians come from foreign countries; they are ubiquitous: in markets,…

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky