Cities Quotes · Page 17

My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.

— Steve Earle

Glasgow is one of my favourite cities.

— Matt Skiba

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

— Bob Cousy

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

— Anne Rice

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

— Christina Rossetti

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.

— Joan Didion

Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche.

— Joey Barton

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see…

— Eduardo Paes

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

— Bridget Moynahan

It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of…

— Frederick Lenz

A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves,

— Jan Gehl

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

— Francis Picabia

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

— Italo Calvino

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

— Nicolas Cage

Chicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city.

— Michael Sucsy

On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I like being New Orleans. Different aspects. You have the lake house. You have a huge, almost plantation-style house, so I like…

— Morris Chestnut

I went back and studied the game, was a student of the game and worked on my craft and dedicated myself, you…

— Kendrick Lamar

I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to…

— Joe Flanigan

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few…

— Terry Bradshaw

In terms of any sacrifices at the time [of World War II], I was somewhat protected living on a small farm where…

— Paul Smith

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those…

— Harry Connick, Jr

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the…

— Ida B. Wells

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people,…

— Susan Sontag

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes…

— Leonard Cohen

Fortunately in Libya, there's only a few cities on the coast, because most of Libya is a desert. The fact of the…

— Donald Trump

I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also…

— Marcus Brigstocke

New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a homesickness that…

— Maeve Brennan

Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without…

— Charles Baudelaire

Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community…

— Ralph Borsodi

The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give…

— Henri Poincare

It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.

— Jose Mourinho

Around the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end.

— Charles Hanson Towne

I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else.

— Robin Leach

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.

— Themistocles

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

— Henri Rousseau

Personally, I like a generous side of wheelchair access with my cities.

— Stella Young

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

— Tahir Shah