Cities Quotes · Page 35

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

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

— Yehuda Amichai

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

— Ivan Chtcheglov

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

— Ken Boshcoff

And Kansas is at Chicago tonight or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas leads in the eighth…

— Jerry Coleman

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

— Sinclair Lewis

The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.

— Marco Rubio

Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

— Thomas Seward

It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human…

— A.C. Grayling

Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort…

— Terence Stamp

What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what…

— Ian Blair

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

— Brian K. Vaughan

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need…

— Edwidge Danticat

I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where…

— Henry Rollins

When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of…

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged…

— William Gibson

In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work…

— Gar Alperovitz

Cities are complex and contain just about any thing or concept ever invented by humans. How the city is built, its topography,…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is…

— George Santayana

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in…

— Anonymous

One of my fun road trips was [when] a group of guys and I rented a tour bus and we started in…

— Alfonso Ribeiro

Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were…

— Katherine Boo

For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make…

— Steven Chu

You realize that these accidental decisions you make about changing jobs, about moving into an apartment where you make new friends and…

— Anna Quindlen

Whether on the floor of Congress or in the boardrooms of corporate America or in the corridors of a big city hospital,…

— Elizabeth Dole

She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that…

— Ruth Ozeki

I was also thinking that I only had a certain amount of time to make music and to spend it in that…

— Roy Montgomery

Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of…

— Tupac Shakur

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

— Samuel Palmer

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

— Barack Obama

Las Vegas is the most honest fake city in the world.

— Frank Scoblete

Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America,

— Dave Grohl

Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

— Olafur Eliasson

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

— Raymond Chandler

You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

— David Remnick

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

— Sam Waterston