Cities Quotes · Page 18

I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.

— Michael Nyman

Cities can be pretty overwhelming for a lot of people, me included.

— Benson Boone

Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!

— John Newton

Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.

— Bruce Springsteen

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

— Harland Williams

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

— Diogenes

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

— Georg Simmel

Manchester's got everything except a beach.

— Ian Brown

Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God…

— Billy Graham

Arsenal are the most beautiful club in England. At Man City and Chelsea, they will never have that class and style.

— Marco van Basten

This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature…

— David Letterman

New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.

— Harry Connick, Jr

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

— Malachy McCourt

I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We…

— Robert Barry

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

— Richard M. Daley

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

— Simon Pegg

I love trawling through markets and vintage shops, and I make super-quick decisions about buying clothes. I also have my usual haunts…

— Alice Temperley

It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in…

— John Steinbeck

[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers…

— Evelyn Anthony

To deliver predictability, we have partnered with Biotique for in-room toiletries, Airtel for Wi-Fi and DTH, and small laundromats in cities to…

— Ritesh Agarwal

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions…

— Akhenaton

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and…

— Mary Augusta Ward

Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed:…

— Cecil Frances Alexander

I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the…

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan…

— Mark Haddon

So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there,…

— Gary Hustwit

While I was writing the book, I went to see Louise Brooks's most famous film, Pandora's Box, at the Tivoli in Kansas…

— Laura Moriarty

In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we…

— Sherwood Anderson

Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil…

— Christopher Isherwood

Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to…

— Robert Montgomery

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.

— Willis Polk

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

— Baz Luhrmann

I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.

— Martin Firrell

For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.

— Mari Evans

My wife loves Europe, but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

— Jay Leno

High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.

— Theophile Gautier

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

— Geoffrey West

The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today.

— James Howard Kunstler