Cities Quotes · Page 21

I'm more on the country side than big cities.

— Marc Gasol

That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.

— Anonymous

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.

— Barbara Corcoran

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

— Anonymous

You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.

— George Carlin

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.

— Arne Duncan

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

— James Bryce

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

— Calvin Trillin

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

— Elisabeth Rohm

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown…

— O. Henry

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

— Hillary Clinton

North Carolina is the place you fly over on the way to Florida. Ohio is the flat place between Hoboken and Malibu.

— John Fleischman

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

— Alan Hansen

In every country, they make fun of city. In U.S. you make fun of Cleveland. In Russia, we make fun of Cleveland.

— Yakov Smirnoff

Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just…

— Zach Braff

In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual…

— Yann Martel

In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and…

— Peter DeFazio

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar…

— Michelle Obama

If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might…

— Aldo Leopold

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your…

— Richard Wright

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London…

— John Berger

This city, all they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We’re all a work in progress…

— Kevin Durant

The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent…

— Edward Gibbon

It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a…

— Michael Cunningham

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,…

— Ray Bradbury

The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there…

— Tycho Brahe

And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns,…

— H. G. Wells

He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward…

— Matthew J. Kirby

King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that…

— Diodorus Siculus

A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land…

— Joel Salatin

Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.

— Sinclair Lewis

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

— Robin Sloan

I'm a creature of the New York City streets.

— Woody Allen

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

— Michael Reagan

The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.

— Lisa Ling

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

— Pablo Neruda

There are so many cities in every single city.

— David Mitchell

“Different cities visit us daily, they exist in the clouds.”

— Antonia Perdu