Cities Quotes · Page 37

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

— Gene Fowler

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

— Will Oldham

I've always been drawn to city skylines.

— Dave Haywood

I may have left Liverpool but the city and club will always be part of me.

— Kenny Dalglish

Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

— Victor Hugo

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

— Nelson Algren

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

— Mason Cooley

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

— Ed Koch

In both houses of Congress, bipartisan legislation has been introduced to ensure that the rights of states and cities to make drone…

— Robin Hayes

Canada is great. It's one of the most beautiful cities and I'm definitely going to miss it a lot.

— Taylor Lautner

Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

— John Milton

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

— Rudyard Kipling

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

— Bob Dylan

I read the New York Times, and if I'm in a different city, I'll skim that paper.

— David Cross

I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New…

— Jemaine Clement

From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend…

— Edmund Wilson

I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would…

— Alec Baldwin

Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love Portland, and it's…

— Alafair Burke

People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people…

— Leonard Slatkin

Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of…

— Bernard Baruch

Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight…

— Robert Farrar Capon

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is,…

— Denis Hayes

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the…

— Leigh Hunt

The Germans are often too bureaucratic, too fixated on rules and not risk-oriented enough. And some of their officials have the feeling…

— Charles Landry

Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many…

— Bernie Sanders

When we started out, we didn't really think that the era of great opportunity would end one day. We were much too…

— Zhang Xin

If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in…

— Willa Cather

The only time I've ever been mistaken for someone else is - and this arguable still - when a person came up…

— John Hodgman

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

— Edward Gibbon

They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, over Rochester,…

— Lauren Oliver

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

— Baltasar Gracian

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

— Patrick Ewing

Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.

— Mark Shields

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

— Marcus Terentius Varro

New Orleans is one of my favorite cities in the entire world.

— Ari Lennox

Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.

— Markus Zusak

Will make Delhi a corruption-free , world class city.

— Arvind Kejriwal

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

— John Berger